We may be Witnessing the End of the Internet as we know it

http://beta.news.yahoo.com/china-calls-us-culprit-global-internet-war-090540771.html

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BEIJING (AP) — The Chinese military accused the U.S. on Friday of launching a global "Internet war" to bring down Arab and other governments, redirecting the spotlight away from allegations of major online attacks on Western targets originating in China.

The accusations Friday by Chinese military academy scholars, and their urging of tougher policing of the Internet, followed allegations this week that computer hackers in China had compromised the personal Gmail accounts of several hundred people, including government officials, military personnel and political activists.

Google traced the origin of the attacks to the city of Jinan that is home to a military vocational school whose computers were linked to a more sophisticated assault on Google's systems 17 months ago. China has denied responsibility for the two attacks.

In Washington, State Department spokesman Mark Toner said the United States had raised its concerns with China over the latest allegations. He said the allegations were serious but made no comment on reports of China's involvement.

Writing in the Communist Party-controlled China Youth Daily newspaper, the scholars did not mention Google's claims, but said recent computer attacks and incidents employing the Internet to promote regime change in Arab nations appeared to have originated with the U.S. government.

"Of late, an Internet tornado has swept across the world ... massively impacting and shocking the globe. Behind all this lies the shadow of America," said the article, signed by Ye Zheng and Zhao Baoxian, identified as scholars with the Academy of Military Sciences.

"Faced with this warm up for an Internet war, every nation and military can't be passive but is making preparations to fight the Internet war," it said.

While nuclear war was a strategy of the industrial era, Internet war is a product of the information age, the article said. Such conflicts stand to be hugely destructive, threatening national security and the very existence of the state, it said. end quote.

As the Internet is beginning to be handled much like borders in previous "Hot War" conflicts all over the world in the past, we begin to see countries like China "Walling Out" foreign Internet (anything other than Chinese controlled Internet) from entering China. As more countries one by one wall out all information that that state deems (for any real or imagined reason) unsuitable for their citizens you will see the Internet diminish everywhere because of this "limiting information spreading around the world as it should". It is just the beginning for more and worse attacks of every kind. It is much like in a real bloody battle. The two (or many many more in this case) bloody opponents search for an advantage before they attack mercilessly. So, as this all heats up what we will lose is a useful Internet for doing commerce and communicating. At this point losing the Internet for commerce and communicating seems like a done deal within 1 to 10 years the way things are presently going worldwide.

At the very least soon you likely will see government bureaus within the United States form their own closed systems for communication not connected to the outside world like they used to have before about the year 2000.