U.S. Concludes 'Cyber Storm' Mock Attacks

[IA_Seth]

U.S. Concludes 'Cyber Storm' Mock Attacks
By TED BRIDIS, Associated Press Writer
2 hours, 16 minutes ago

On EDIT: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060210/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/cyber_storm

WASHINGTON - The government concluded its "Cyber Storm" wargame Friday, its biggest-ever exercise to test how it would respond to devastating attacks over the Internet from anti-globalization activists, underground hackers and bloggers.

Bloggers?

Participants confirmed parts of the worldwide simulation challenged government officials and industry executives to respond to deliberate misinformation campaigns and activist calls by Internet bloggers, online diarists whose "Web logs" include political rantings and musings about current events.

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Oooh.. they are watching.

[htuttle]

1. Gotta link on this?

I found this one:

http://australianit.news.com.au/articles/0,7204,18092638%5E15319%5E%5Enbv%5E,00.html

But not the one you posted.

[IA_Seth]

5. Whoops...edited. Thanks! n/t

[malaise]

14. So were all those Danish websites that

were supposedly hacked my Muslims yesterday part of this exercise. Hmmmmmmmmm.

[VegasWolf]

2. bloggers??? What kind of idiots are running this country? nt

[Demeter]

17. After Nixon, Reagan, Bush and Dubya, You Have to Ask?

Paranoid, ignorant, arrogant, faith-based fools with unlimited greed.

[DBoon]

3. "deliberate misinformation campaigns ... by Internet bloggers"

I think this is called "Dan Rathering"

[TheModernTerrorist]

13. no

I think they're talking about www.freerepublic.com

[mom cat]

4. Do you think that they are on to Project X?

Seem like they are defemding against some powerful ideas. Time to move to plan 6.

[MrMonk]

6. So-called "Plan 6" is merely a trifling variant of Project X.

Stay the course.

[mom cat]

7. I can see from your sig line that plan 8 is off the table too.

[kster]

11. Project X and 6 are very much in play

they want 8 off the table think about it. 6-9-19-1 is what they don't want us looking at. We got them with 6-9-19-1 don't ya think?

[mom cat]

22. No! The key is 13. They are dumb enough to overlok it because the christo-

fascists are supersticious and skip right over unlucky numbers. You must have missed that meeting. Agent Orange spelled it out in great detail. Just be careful. They are starting to read posts like these so it is important to conceal your intent.

[MrPrax]

8. Project X isn't that scary...

but I wouldn't give them a email address either. They do have a forum!!

http://www.chosenones.net/

[LibertyorDeath]

24. Are sex sigs allowed now

:)
"The dead do not shoo-bop-a-loo-bop."

[Rex]

9. Only Repuke scum is allowed to do this kinda stuff.

Activist is Repuke code for liberal. I'm sure they will categorize this as terrorism and arrest bloggers (who the MSM hates).

[bleever]

10. "Government prepares to repel participation by citizens."

This is bad stuff.

[henslee]

12. Alert! Alert! Incoming kitty threads!!!!! Duck and Cover!!!!!

[farmbo]

15. Bush's War on Blogging:You're either with us,or you're with the Bloggers.

:crazy:

Sorry Mein president...with your TIA programs and warrantless surveilance...color me a blogger.

[CJCRANE]

16. Sounds ominous:

"Participants confirmed parts of the worldwide simulation challenged government officials and industry executives to respond to deliberate misinformation campaigns and activist calls by Internet bloggers, online diarists whose "Web logs" include political rantings and musings about current events."

I think they're more worried about deliberate truthful information.

[nashville_brook]

18. outlandish rumors and random thoughts

my vote for most outrageous rumor is the http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=364&topic_id=377018&mesg_id=380450">Iranian hanging of a teenage rape victim. just my personal fave of the last few days.

someone last night mentioned something that seems synergistic, referencing a star trek episode.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=364&topic_id=381777&mesg_id=381777">here's the thread... it's a response to 'detention camp' threads.

"... came across a summary of the two-part episode "Past Tense." In it, the DS9 crew travel back in time to early 21st Century Earth (2020s) and are trapped in a "sanctuary" zone in San Francisco. This zone (and others like it) were created supposedly to help the homeless and unemployed, but they were really created to separate and contain people the government found undesireable. Doesn't that sound like something that actually could happen soon?..."

as i remember in that episode, 'the internet' was used sucessfully against the govt. maybe the threads about 'detention camps' were 'watched.' ("once... in detention camp...")

when i was in grad school in sociology, i never dreamed of having so much access to raw data -- and potential for interaction -- ethnography. these little blips of light can provide deep insight. the question everyone would like answered is, "now what?" this might not be the answer anyone wants, but i think it's a good time to read http://poetry.poetryx.com/poems/577/">Drum Taps.

[GreenPoet64]

19. I guess our opinions are now "attacks."

How many people does this administration pay to sit behind a computer to post "counter attacks" to the opinions of ordinary Americans?

Is this the most paranoid controlling administration in history?

[nolabels]

26. Me thinks they spending a wee bit too much time online

Try mixing in a movie in once in while Mike :shrug:

[Earth_First]

20. This absolutely, unequivocally with no doubt in my mind...

proves that WE are the threat.

This has absolutely NOTHING to do with protecting any level of global internet security, and EVERYTHING to do with censoring the free flow of political information on the internet.

[Matariki]

21. hmmm, is THIS why the power went off in the entire building

at 2pm yesterday, at the internet company i work for?

[BrutalEntropy]

23. Funny

I too work for an ISP, and our servers were going up and down all day Monday.

We never did track down the problem. They spontaneously started working again.

[LibertyorDeath]

25. The foundation for an American police state is finished

They will get down to business ASAP.