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Cyber 'bombs,' digital D-Days and other nonsense
Cybergeddon is coming. To the disappointment of many, it's just going to look like some dude sitting at a desk, typing, and probably farting into his Department of Defense office chair. Secretary of Defense Ash Carter was quoted recently as saying the United States was going to be "dropping cyber bombs" on ISIS, and the newly invented rhetoric produced its desired effect. In expressions of both eagerness and incomprehension, outlets wrote, "Pentagon hits ISIS with 'cyber bombs' in full-scale online campaign." Scientific American even went so far as to try and explain the skin-crawlingly crazy phrase in a piece titled "How U.S. 'Cyber Bombs' against Terrorists Really Work." India Times took it all quite literally, in an article titled "There's Something Called a Cyber Bomb and the US Is Planning to Drop It on ISIS." It explained, "The proper definition of a cyber-bomb is still a little convoluted and has been kept under wraps mainly because an operation of such magnitude is yet to be carried out."
