Plan X: US Military Building Digital 'Armored Tank' for Cyber Battlefield
<div class='node-body'><p>The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (known as DARPA), the cyber-security arm of the Pentagon, has visions of building the cyberspace equivalent of an 'armored tank' to engage on the global battlefield of digital warfare, according to a report by The Washington Post. The previously unreported on project has been dubbed 'Plan X' and would be the most ambitious cyberwarfare project yet initated by the US military.</p></div><div class="field field-type-filefield field-field-news-hp-image">
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