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Fault Lines - Cyberwar
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Fault Lines - Cyberwar

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Cyberwar has no foot soldiers, guns, or missiles, but it has hackers, digital spy rings, and cyberarmies backed by nation states. Al Jazeera's Josh Rushing reports on the growing US conviction that it must prepare for a fight in cyberspace, at stake being critical infrastructure, commercial secrets, and billions in defense contracts. He interviews General Keith Alexander, then head of US Cyber Command and the NSA, alongside a Silicon Valley CEO, a working hacker going by Redbeard, and former Homeland Security chief Michael Chertoff. Senators Jay Rockefeller and Olympia Snowe weigh in on legislation to address the threat, while analyst Jim Lewis and others question whether the danger is being inflated by a security industry with a financial stake in the alarm. Rushing's driving question is blunt: is the United States itself fueling an arms race in cyberspace? The film moves between Washington testimony and Silicon Valley offices, tracing how offense, defense, privacy, and profit blur together once warfare moves onto a network.