[nezumi]

Sort of off-topic, but does it bug anyone else that the militaries and governments of the world continue to refer to 'cyberspace' as if 'cyber-' was current Internet jargon? (Whereas in reality I only see it used for that other thing we are supposed to be making instead of war...)

[ihsw]

Cyberspace is distinctly separate from meatspace.

[benologist]

If only there was a way to hack their vocabulary and disrupt the way they say things!

[DanBC]

What other word would you use?

Cyber is pretty clearly defined among the people who use it. Other words are not.

[forktheif]

Got to admit though, "cyber" sounds very 90s.

Now excuse me as I continue surfing the information super highway!

[rpc_was_taken]

Or very 40s when Norbert Wiener published "Cybernetics, or Communication and Control in the Animal and the Machine".

[DanBC]

William Gibson's books are early 80s!!! (Burning Chrome, 1982)

[alexwright]

> Cyber is pretty clearly defined among the people who use it. Other words are not.

Maybe the people using these terms (ie, people creating a "defence force" for the UK) should be more in touch with... more current lingo?

Sure would give them at least a vague sense of credibility if they called this something more like an internet/network orientated security... force.

On the otherhand, maybe these people having the massive tell of proclaiming "but this is CYBER." is a good thing? We know to dismiss what ever they're suggesting as uninformed and generally a terrible idea.

[walshemj]

Well at one point one minster referred to recruiting "cyber Jedis" personaly I would stick to a short barreled M4 (piston variant) and a Glock plus a hold out derringer and a kukri as my bladed weapon choice.

the names Howard bob Howard :-)

[DanBC]

> should be more in touch with... more current lingo?

What is "more current lingo"?

> an internet/network orientated security... force.

It isn't Internet specific. It isn't just about networking.

[bostik]

> What other word would you use?

Maybe not a single word, but "technology and information warfare"?

[walshemj]

Going back to the ur source I woudl suggest "hardcore" for DA and "softcore" for recce and sigint type work :-)

its a William Gibson reference for you youngsters

[cmdkeen]

Because information warfare is an entirely different, and existing, branch of the military. Think hearts and minds operations.

They need a new term.

[7952]

Non-geographic and abstract spaces defence force.

[lttlrck]

Not really it's very well established and unambiguous.