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

Posted by samzenpus on from the do-you-want-to-play-a-game dept.

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

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

  2. 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.
  3. Re:Comparison in slightly bad taste... by James_Duncan8181 · · Score: 5, Insightful
    What? Bringing down a power grid during rush hour, changing details of patient notes on a hospital network, or sending false messages and checking the content of sent messages all have the potential to kill.

    Have you no imagination at all? ;)

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    "To any truly impartial person, it would be obvious that I am right."
  4. Comment removed by account_deleted · · Score: 5, Funny

    Comment removed based on user account deletion

  5. Slashdot has caught the political meme by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    There used to be a time when you could comment on such articles without it being turned into a political diatribe. This article is damn interesting and there could be some awesome commentary by some /.'ers. However you political numbnuts decided to turn this into soapbox rant afternoon.

    BTW, I am left-leaning as well, but for fucks sake keep your politics to yourself. It's completely off-topic yet gets modded up becuase of /. groupthink. Leave your political rants for the /. political threads.

    Cmon guys don't drag this place down a notch. It's annoying to sort through at +4/5 expecting cool comments but all you get is some guys off topic political rant that fits the /. atmosphere.