Cyber Storm II Set To Begin

mr sanjeev notes that Computerworld is running a story about Cyber Storm II, set to run from March 11th until the 14th. The exercise will test the security of the US, Australia, the UK, New Zealand, and Canada. The organizers' goals are to test preparedness and responsiveness in relation to real-time threats. The previous Cyber Storm test identified "eight specific areas in need of improvement." We recently discussed the details of the tests themselves. From Computerworld: "Security experts said the first Cyber Storm event last year improved participants' understanding of who to call in the event of an attack, but did not identify specific vulnerabilities in the nation's computer systems. 'What they're trying to do is highlight the inefficiencies in the process,' according to Marcus Sachs, deputy director with research group SRI International's Computer Science Laboratory. 'They're not really looking for technical solutions.'"

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Re:How did the first one help?

[PopeRatzo]

Friend, it's all a PR exercise. In the next seven months, we're going to be hearing about every possible type of attack. If you were to judge the state of the world by the media coverage in the coming months (thanks to a lazy, complicit press), you would think that every other human living on earth is a satanic terrorist, looking to kill your babies.

History books will look back on our current confluence of Terrorism and War as a type of madness. It will judge harshly the weak-hearted "leaders" who used fear to govern.

One thing, though: The past seven years has certainly changed my opinion of the Second Amendment. And I choose to extend the "right to bear arms" to the "cyber" type, including the best crypto I can find. Maybe not to use every day, but to keep for the inevitable.