Fun loving post found over at TheRegister website about SOCOM getting some form of contract or another to conduct psywars online. The gyst of it from my perspective is funding attacks on web using people! As they say it :

“The secretive US Special Operations Command (SOCOM) has awarded arms globocorp General Dynamics a $10m contract to set up a network of psychological-warfare “influence websites” supporting the Global War On Terror. France and Britain are specifically included as “targeted regions”.”

Huh? The fun part is that digital wars have been going on since pre Internet days, back when the Bulliten Board System still roamed the Earth – of course then in was more secretive. In the 80s the way to get a great job was to make a seriously awesome hack of some major iron, you’d be hunted down, arrested, and then given a wicked cool job hunting others down. Of course that lasted just so long coming to an end in the late 80s early 90s when Government and big industry just got tired of being hacked. Now of course those two entities now have armies of their own protecting their assets. But has anything really changed?

The only major change is in the past few years people, company and governments have stopped hiding the fact that full scale digital war is going on. Shit, the USA government loves to talk about Asian based nations hacking the living crap out of USA based web properties. So now it has gone to trying to directly involve the public and doing so with robust funding. Frankly, I am not surprised if the article I linked to is acurate.