Reddit reviews Cyber War: The Next Threat to National Security and What to Do About It

> Those aren't connected to the internet.

If you want something nice to read: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0061962236 (Cyber War by
Richard A. Clarke )

I don't know if you've read it but if you're interested, Cyber War by Richard A. Clark is a good read.

Yes, and I think that LulzSec will, in the not-too-distant future, be viewed as a sort of predecessor army or online militia to the ones that will define warfare in the future and are already defining warfare now. This was very clearly prophesied by this book, published in January 2007--and China is the main 'actor':

http://www.amazon.com/Breakpoint-Richard-Clarke/dp/0399153780

And from April 2010:

http://www.amazon.com/Cyber-War-Threat-National-Security/dp/0061962236

And a related one by another author, from September 2011:

http://www.amazon.com/America-Vulnerable-Digital-Espionage-Warfare/dp/159420313X/ref=pd_bxgy_b_img_y

> At a security conference in 2002, after citing statistics that indicate that less than 0.0025 percent of corporate revenue on average is spent on information-technology security, Clarke was famously heard to say, "If you spend more on coffee than on IT security, then you will be hacked. What's more, you deserve to be hacked."[10]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_A._Clarke

Then see these bits of news, from February 2011, and here's China:

Bloomberg.com: Exxon, Shell Said to Have Been Hacked Via Chinese Servers

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-02-24/exxon-shell-bp-said-to-have-been-hacked-through-chinese-internet-servers.html

V3.co.uk: Night Dragon hackers targeted Shell, BP and Exxon

http://www.v3.co.uk/v3-uk/news/2030642/night-dragon-hackers-targeted-shell-bp-exxon

ComputerWeekly.com: Exxon, Shell, BP hacked in Night Dragon attacks

http://www.computerweekly.com/news/1280095257/Exxon-Shell-BP-hacked-in-Night-Dragon-attacks