U.S. Hackers Told to Leave Iraq Alone

The FBI is telling Americans not to hack into and sabotage Iraqi websites. There is a possibility that such patriotic hacking could backfire, doing more harm to U.S. computer systems than to Iraqi systems. Nationalistic ‘cyber wars’ launched by patriotic citizens of one country against websites of other countries are increasing, and the U.S. is now drawing up guidelines to deal with them. In any event, only 12,000 Iraqis are online, and computers with the most sensitive information are usually not connected to the internet. -YaleGlobal