The Cool War and Cyberwarfare

What is the most interesting to me is what the young NSA Contractor revealed while he stays out of reach of the U.S. Government and while the new leader of China was visiting President Obama near Palm Springs, California. The timing couldn't have been better (for China that is). So, the fact that the contractor is in Hong Kong (a part of China) makes one wonder what is going on?

However, maybe the most interesting thing he has revealed so far is that the U.S. and China are now engaged in an Offensive battle in Cyberspace. The gloves are off at least in regard to Cyber Warfare between the U.S. and China. This might be the single most important thing that happened here. Because at the very least people now know what they have suspected for some time. At least in regard to Cyber Warfare China and the U.S. are at war even if it is limited to this warfare arena of Cyberspace.

I remember a friend of mine in the U.S. Navy during the Cold War was was a carrier fighter pilot. Then whatever you did mostly you did regarding breaking the speed of sound instead of in Cyber Space. Back then it was the Russians (The Soviets) and it was the 1960s. And the story my friend told me that was standard procedure then was if a Russian Trawler got too close to U.S. operations and if they couldn't get it to go away fighters were scrambled from aircraft carriers and told to fly as low and as fast as they could over Russian Trawlers. The idea was to blow up their boilers by breaking the speed of sound as fast as they could and as close to the ocean as they could over the trawler. So they would do this until the boiler in the Russian Trawler blew up. Because they weren't using missiles or weapons this was acceptable during the Cold War. But likely this also meant that all windows and most of the eardrums of the crewmembers on the trawler were gone too from the concussion of the breaking of the sound barrier. Now we are in the Cool War the losses likely will be in technology and in money and efficiency for both countries now and in the future. And like then mostly we will hear very little about it in the news if at all.