All your credit card numbers are ours- there's a War on, you know.

Via Defense Tech via Wired News:

The U.S. military has assembled the world's most formidable hacker posse: a super-secret, multimillion-dollar weapons program that may be ready to launch bloodless cyberwar against enemy networks -- from electric grids to telephone nets.

The group's existence was revealed during a U.S. Senate Armed Services Committee hearing last month. Military leaders from U.S. Strategic Command, or Stratcom, disclosed the existence of a unit called the Joint Functional Component Command for Network Warfare, or JFCCNW...

The JFCCNW is charged with defending all Department of Defense networks. The unit is also responsible for the highly classified, evolving mission of Computer Network Attack, or as some military personnel refer to it, CNA...

One expert on cyber warfare said considering the unit is a "joint command," it is most likely made up of personnel from the CIA, National Security Agency, FBI, the four military branches, a smattering of civilians [private contractors, like DynCorp no doubt] and even military representatives from allied nations...

"I've got to tell you we spend more time on the computer network attack business than we do on computer network defense because so many people at very high levels are interested," said former CNA commander, Air Force Maj. Gen. John Bradley, during a speech at a 2002 Association of Old Crows conference. The group is the leading think tank on information and electronic warfare...

Yes, DynCorp, the mercenary company that specialized in sex slavery in Bosnia, has access to some of the best hackers and snooping software in the world now that's it's part of the Team.

Which is about as good as putting drug smugglers in charge of the U.S. anti-crime database.

That little idea seems to have been shut down for awhile. You know, just like TIA was shut down.

Wasn't it?