US Cyber Weapons Threaten Human Life!

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Cyber warfare may cross over into the real world to harm humans because of an upcoming military contract valued at almost half a billion dollars.

Raytheon, Northrop Grumman and Lockheed Martin are some of the military contractors competing for an upcoming $460 million US Cyber Command project to give the American military the power to turn foreign critical infrastructure with weaponized code.

A 114-page draft of a 5-year contract released on September 30 details a plan to get private companies to support military operations with cyber warfare.

The initial work order will support "cyber joint munitions effectiveness" by developing and deploying "cyber weapons" and coordinating with "tool developers" in the spy community, the documents state.

Some of the more direct cyber espionage activities include starting "cyber fires" in other countries' hardware. This separates this new kind of cyber warfare from traditional electronic attacks in that it can actually be a threat to human life, according to the document.

The draft even lays out contract requirements for a weapons and capabilities lead position, including a "minimum of three years of experience in cyber fires and/or cyber targeting."

According to American retired major general, cyber strikes are allowed even if "it is certain that civilians would be killed or injured as the reasonably anticipated collateral damage isn't excessive in relation to what you expect to gain militarily."

Source: News Agencies, Edited by website team