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CIA's Info Ops Team Hosts 3-Day Cyber Wargame

ScentCone writes "The CIA has booked some conference rooms and is working through a simulated 'digital Pearl Harbor' to see how government and industry handle a monster net attack from an imaginary future foe composed of anti-American and anti-globalization hackers. Having been accused of lacking imagination about potential terror attacks, they're using the exercise to better shape the government's roles in a variety of attack scenarios. The networking industry, it seems, is expected to always play a big part in detecting and thwarting such threats, as 9/11-scale economic disruption is a likely bad-guy objective."

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  1. In Soviet Russia... by CypherXero · · Score: 4, Funny

    The network attacks YOU!

  2. Digital Pearl Harbor is Nice... by neo5064 · · Score: 5, Funny

    But personally, I'm waiting for "Digital Hiroshima"

  3. Tis already happened! by dj245 · · Score: 5, Funny
    The networking industry, it seems, is expected to always play a big part in detecting and thwarting such threats, as 9/11-scale economic disruption is a likely bad-guy objective."

    Sadly my website http://www.rogertheshrubber.net/ has already fallen victim to the hordes of the digital pearl harbour. There is a pestilence upon this land. Nothing is sacred. Even those who arrange and design shrubberies are under considerable economic stress at this period in history.

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    Even those who arrange and design shrubberies are under considerable economic stress at this period in history.
  4. Comment removed by account_deleted · · Score: 5, Funny

    Comment removed based on user account deletion

  5. Re:Bad Guys? by Etcetera · · Score: 4, Funny


    Defending yourself against the United States makes you a "bad guy?"

    From the perspective of a citizen of the United States, yes.