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Government Cyber Storm Ends

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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Re:Press Release by Max+Threshold · 2006-02-12 06:28 · Score: 4, Interesting

Seriously, though... I think the do this all the time. They've been testing the public and the media for decades to see who calls bullshit. Their lies and obfuscation have slowly gotten more outrageous, and people have been conditioned to think nothing of scandals that just a generation or two ago would have resulted in civil war.