DoD Threatens Oracle With Nuclear Annihilation

A recent DoD report says that all options are on the table, including nuclear counterstrikes, in response to a sophisticated cyber-security attack. If that is the case, you’d better evacuate the Oracle campus since they seem to be the source of most attacks with their crappy Java product.

From TribLive here:

The United States should be prepared to use every military option, including nuclear retaliation, in response to a huge computer attack, an independent Department of Defense task force said.

“It would have to be extreme,” Paul Kaminski, chair of the Science Board and a member of the President’s Intelligence Advisory Board, said about the kind of attack that might trigger a nuclear response. “It would have to be the kind of attack that we would judge would be threatening our survival.”

The United States must assume that computer attacks will be part of conflicts, said the report from the task force made up of civilian experts with government advisers.

“We recognize the serious nature of these threats and are urgently working to improve our capabilities to defend the nation, deter adversaries — and if called upon — take decisive action in all domains, to include cyberspace,” Pickart told the Trib.

All options should be on the table, but threatening a nuclear response might go too far, said Dmitri Alperovitch, co-founding chief technology officer of CrowdStrike, a security technology company in Irvine, Calif. “I cannot, for the life of me,” he said, “imagine a scenario in which a realistic cyber attack could do that.”

Hell, killing 3000 people in the World trade Center didn’t provoke a nuclear retaliation. And seeing as how no cyber attack has ever actually killed anyone, why is this even being discussed? But one thing for sure- if there was ever an American company that deserved to be in nuclear crosshairs, it’s Oracle. Oh, and those assholes who keep trying to install the Ask toolbar with every Java update should get nuked too.