IP: Swedes prepare for high-tech war

[Dave Farber <farber@cis.upenn.edu>]

STOCKHOLM, Sweden (AP) - The Swedish government plans to train
special information technology soldiers to protect the nation's
military computer systems from hackers, a newspaper reported Monday.
The government has issued a directive to the armed forces to train
"IT soldiers" to be able to destroy hostile systems as well as
protect Swedish computer systems, according to the daily Svenska
Dagbladet. Computer experts in Sweden will conduct an exercise next
year that will be modeled on a U.S. cyberwar game in 1997 where
experts used software to crack codes and gain access to command
systems at military bases and aircraft carriers. See
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2562864781-2c1


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