The US Just Opened Pandora's Box

Global Guerrillas
What's the similarity between drones and software bots (worms, trojans, viruses, etc.)? 

They are both riding the same trend. Here's what I mean.

Up until recently drones have been toys or dumb missiles.  Why?  Because they were dumb.  The same thing is true with software bots/malware.  Until recently, they were more of a nuisance than a threat.

What's changed?  Now they are smart and they are getting smarter fast.  In fact, the rate of change is so fast and the potential for improvement is so great, they are literally game changers in modern warfare.

'End of the world as we know it': Kaspersky warns of cyber-terror apocalypse

Eugene Kaspersky 

rt.com
After his eponymously-named lab discovered Flame, "the most sophisticated cyber weapon yet unleashed," Eugene Kaspersky believes that the evolving threat of “cyber terrorism” could spell the end of life on Earth as we know it.

­Doomsday scenarios are a common occurrence in 2012, but coming from a steely-eyed realist like Eugene Kaspersky, his calls for a global effort to halt emerging cyber threats should raise alarm bells. A global Internet blackout and crippling attacks against key infrastructure are among two possible cyber-pandemics he outlined.

"It's not cyber war, it's cyber terrorism, and I'm afraid the game is just beginning. Very soon, many countries around the world will know it beyond a shadow of a doubt,” Kaspersky told reporters at a Tel Aviv University cyber security conference. “I'm afraid it will be the end of the world as we know it," he warned. "I'm scared, believe me."