Government Cyber Storm Ends

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Posted by CmdrTaco on Sunday February 12, 2006 @05:09AM from the guess-who-is-to-blame dept.

Bemmu writes "Mainichi Daily News and BBC News are reporting that the 'Cyber Storm' operation, for testing how prepared America is for fending off cyber attacks, has now concluded. Apparently they even used bloggers as part of the operation, as relayers of misinformation!"

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Misinformation? by Winlin · 2006-02-12 05:11 · Score: 5, Funny

Are you trying to tell me bloggers aren't reliable??? My whole worldview has come crashing down.
Lies! by elleomea · 2006-02-12 05:13 · Score: 5, Funny

Clearly it han't ended and slashdot is just being used for misinformation!
Internet attack? by xxxJonBoyxxx · 2006-02-12 05:14 · Score: 4, Funny

"It was carried out on secure computers in the basement of the Secret Service in Washington DC."
Sounds realistic...
1. Re:Internet attack? by Rosco+P.+Coltrane · 2006-02-12 05:22 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  "It was carried out on secure computers in the basement of the Secret Service in Washington DC." Sounds realistic...
  
  Dude, the simulation is supposed to be accurate, remember? I bet the SS guys playing the 3v1l h4x0rs even drew pimples on their faces, wore CCC-branded shirts, didn't wash for 2 weeks, bought the latest issue of 2600 and messed up the basement with old slices of pizza before doing their simulated deeds...
  
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2. Re:Internet attack? by mister_llah · 2006-02-12 05:30 · Score: 3, Funny
  
  It'd be even more realistic if those agents were morbidly obese, unshaven, and unshowered...
  
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"Apparently they even used bloggers..." by Anonymous Coward · 2006-02-12 05:15 · Score: 5, Funny

Man, I am so linking to this.
This just in... by coastin · 2006-02-12 05:21 · Score: 5, Funny

After thinking that the Internet had doged a bullet from the Cyber Storm of the century, reports are now coming in that several cyber levys have been breeched and the internet is filling with spam.

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Crack by Anonymous Coward · 2006-02-12 05:33 · Score: 5, Funny

I wonder what happens when they use crackers instead of hackers.
Quick - someone save the internet by MECC · 2006-02-12 05:59 · Score: 4, Funny

"The Internet survived, even against fictional abuses against the world's computers."

I've got this picture of DHS undercover agents running around screaming "the sky is falling, the sky is falling!", and then making chicken-clucking noises. Nobody panics, and they proclaim "Right then, all is well".

My tax dollars hard at work...

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Why then... by audioinfektion · 2006-02-12 06:03 · Score: 3, Funny

Is the data light on my internet connection still pegged.. Was not before this thing started...