Pentagon (Over)Spends $200 Million A Year Dealing With Hackers
The Pentagon-really, the "Department of Defense cyber command force"! LOL-will admit today that it has spent $100 million in the past six months dealing with hackers. Doesn't that seem inexplicable?
Is this a serious question? My answer would be "Not really."
Nearly $17 million A MONTH? For like, anti-hacker activity? I'm no security expert, but really, how do you spend that much? You could hire Angelina Jolie to come in and fight viruses for you.
Those are Pentagon dollars. A pack of cigarettes costs something like $575 in Pentagon dollars.
Considering they (and the government as a whole) probably spend several times more money on much less dangerous spheres of "national security," $17 million a month isn't that galling of an amount.
Also, what brent cox said.
Nick Denton could have accomplished this for $7.50.