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Earlier this week, the head of Britain's surveillance agency, GCHQ, accused US technology companies of becoming "the command and control networks of choice" for terrorists.
But the risks of plutonium theft or accidental launch through a breakdown of Russia's crumbling command and control networks are a real and continuing threat to American security.
The United States Cyber Command which reports to the U.S. Strategic Command has been assigned the mission of using "cyber operations to disrupt an adversary's command and control networks, military-related critical infrastructure, and weapons capabilities".
He described social-media sites as "the command and control networks of choice" for terror groups, and criticised the extra security measures being added to the internet by companies in their efforts to deter surveillance by Western spies.
Robert Hannigan, newly installed GCHQ boss, recently castigated US tech firms for failing to cooperate enough with spy agencies, calling them "the command and control networks of choice" for terrorists.
Attempts to control the use of cryptography and other security measures will make the development of improved command and control networks more difficult and may impede this task by limiting the people who can contribute to approved government and contractor personnel.
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His assertion that US tech giants are "the command-and-control networks of choice for terrorists and criminals" is clearly an indication that, if anything, he views these companies as enemies to fight, not organisations to work alongside.
On November 3rd Robert Hannigan, the new director of GCHQ, Britain's surveillance agency, accused social networks and other online services of becoming "the command-and-control networks of choice for terrorists and criminals".
Previously, the first act of Robert Hannigan when he took over as head of GCHQ in November was to launch a public attack on the US technology giants, accusing them of being ""the command-and-control networks of choice for terrorists and criminals".
The Taliban's command-and-control networks have stood up relatively well since their resurgence in 2006, but the campaign against their senior and middle leadership by American, Afghan and other special forces, aided by a much-improved intelligence picture and supported by drones, has taken a huge toll.
"However much they may dislike it, they have become the command-and-control networks of choice for terrorists and criminals, who find their services as transformational as the rest of us.
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