{"id":53531,"date":"2016-02-29T21:29:06","date_gmt":"2016-02-29T21:29:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/la_times_pentagon_mobilizes_military_hackers_against_isis\/"},"modified":"2016-02-29T21:29:06","modified_gmt":"2016-02-29T21:29:06","slug":"la_times_pentagon_mobilizes_military_hackers_against_isis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=53531","title":{"rendered":"(LA Times) Pentagon mobilizes military hackers against ISIS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mlitary commanders have mounted a cyberoffensive against Islamic State in Iraq and Syria in recent weeks by deploying hackers to penetrate the extremist group\u2019s computer and cellphone networks, according to the Pentagon.<\/p>\n<p>The cyberassault, which Defense Secretary Ashton Carter authorized last month, marks the first time teams from U.S. Cyber Command have been integrated into an active battlefield since the command was established in 2009.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese are strikes that are conducted in the war zone using cyber, essentially as a weapon of war,\u201d\u009d Carter said in a National Public Radio interview. \u201cJust as we drop bombs, we\u2019re dropping cyberbombs.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/nation\/la-fg-isis-cyber-20160228-story.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mlitary commanders have mounted a cyberoffensive against Islamic State in Iraq and Syria in recent weeks by deploying hackers to penetrate the extremist group\u2019s computer and cellphone networks, according to the Pentagon. The cyberassault, which Defense Secretary Ashton Carter authorized<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=53531\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,40,50,433,209,94,143,168,95,148,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-social-networking","category-americau-s-a","category-blogging-the-internet","category-defense-national-security-military","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-science-technology","category-terrorism","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53531","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=53531"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53531\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}