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Government Cyber Storm Ends
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!"
That would explain the "Nude Paris Hilton demonstrates latest version of FireFox while denouncing Bush administration" links that mysteriously went to the Bonneville Power Administration.
WTF...
Considering the massive digital leakage that has been being reported (information leaking from all sorts of places, includintg the IRS - the real reason they dropped teletax).... and the most popular OS being one produced by what is primarily a marketing company, not even a secondary technology company, but a legal firm and buyout company (Microsoft)...where their own anti-spyware disables third part anti-virus software (Symantec - a cpu and resource hog)...
Lets get real here. Stop wasting Tax payer money on theories and the following of Bushes faith path.
If you want to be secure, don't connect to open lines with non-secure systems. And even better, get your priorities straight.
The only thing real about this is that its genuinely misinformation itself. Where even those participating are the most gullable.
Want to protect the US againts misinformation? Get rid of the Bush administration... tell thenm to move to iraq and set up a remote office from there.
What the hell is cyber security worth if there are other worse and more down to earth and real problems than playing "the matrix"
Computers are tools created by man and as such they can and do break, leak, etc... just like any other man made tool.
The difference is that breakage is taken into consideration to reduce physical harm.
Man made tools sould not be relied upon in critical matters unless they have been designed to fail in such a manner they is safer (consider the auto industry..)
Now there is the other side of this "cyber storm" that of not protecting the American public, but of deceiving teh american public.....But the government already knows how to do this as the war on iraq has proven beyond doubt and the government (1 person, no conspiracy just the nature of politicians that would then obviously inherently play on it) can and does resort to threaten the resources it needs into co-operation (anthrax threats on teh new media to help bang war drums....)
Putting all this into perspective - see recent slashdot story regarding an adware company hiring one individual to impliment something that then took down a critical care hospital network.....
Its the american way....shrug
The US government/military has its own telephone exchange system, separate from the public telephone system. I'd imagine they would also by now have their own digital communication network.
It also seems the NSA failed to update their system to handle the y2k problem, as their system went down (all of them) for sime number of consecutive days...
I think for anyone to do the accounting of governemnt failures in system maintainence and honesty to teh american people, it would clearly expose where the real national security risk really are.