The Pentagon is building its own totally unnecessary, $20bn jobs-for-the-boys Internet 2.0, to give all American commanders and troops a moving picture of all foreign enemies and threats ... just wait till someone hacks it and plays their own War Games II. "This Internet in the sky would allow marines in a Humvee (a militry vehicle), in a faraway land, in the middle of a rainstorm, to open up their laptops, request imagery" from a spy satellite, and "get it downloaded within seconds," Peter Teets, Undersecretary of the Air Force told Congress. The Pentagon calls its secure network conceived six years ago and for which the first connections were laid six weeks ago, the Global Information Grid of GIG. It is expected to take two decades and hundreds of billions of dollars to build the new war net and its components. While critics say the cost will be staggering, avocates say networked computers will be the most powerful [and most dangerous] weapon in the American arsenal. Discuss ... Source: