Former NSA chief warns of cyber-terror attacks if Snowden apprehended

theguardian.com

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How to make friend and influence people:

"If and when our government grabs Edward Snowden, and brings him back here to the United States for trial, what does this group do?" said retired air force general Michael Hayden, who from 1999 to 2009 ran the NSA and then the CIA, referring to "nihilists, anarchists, activists, Lulzsec, Anonymous, twentysomethings who haven't talked to the opposite sex in five or six years".

Making Snowden the story to take the light off of the NSA and FBI spying on everyone.

Well said Reichsminister Goebbels.

Oh great, we've already moved from the already awful "cyberwar" expression, to "cyber-terrorism" now? I predict they'll be talking about the "cyber-apocalypse" or "cyber-armageddon" a year from now. The scarier the words the beter.

Cybernado.

What would you call it? An attack on Google, or Microsoft, or Apple, or Sony, or Verizon as "retaliation" for cooperating with the US government, designed to punish the corporation for performing their legal duty and to "scare" other corporations into not cooperating.

Okay so no one's going to die, which makes it significantly different in scope, but if it's an attack on a company with the goal of inciting fear...

it is an insurrection

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