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Pentagon To Spend $500 Million On Cyber Defense
hostedftp found a story about the Pentagon's plan to shell out half a billion dollars on cyber defense in the next year. The article says, "The $500 million is part of the Pentagon's 2012 budget request of $2.3 billion to improve the Defense Department's cyber capabilities."
I'm guessing that HBGary Federal won't be seeing too much of that...
...on upgrading all their trial copies of Mcafee.
500 million there. Pffft chump change...
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sounds like a good use of the money. I mean that's only half the cost of a single stealth bomber to improve security so that we don't get p0wned by some hacker.
Seems as if my job is safe, for now. Gotta keep riding, riding, riding that bubble.
Unplugging the computer from the network is free. It's also free to not invest in wireless.
Pentagon to spend $500 Million on Cyber Defense
...Otherwise known as the internet kill-switch.
People sneer at "cyberwarfare", but once i came across this I sort of rethought the concept. If they're aiming to basically network everything and everyone to increase reaction times and information availability, it really makes a bit more sense.
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....attached to vaguely defined requirements. It's what makes the consulting industry work!
Look, if you don't wanna cyber, just don't accept chat invites from that guy anymore.
that should give them a in-house developed OS, tho prolly for 5-hundred-melleons, the maximum ...
resolution will only yield something around 1024x764
...our debt isn't big enough. Let's spend $500 Million on something that will be rendered useless by some idiot employee who clicks on banners.
What do I know, I'm just an idiot, right?
Doesn't sound like an unreasonable price tag, but that is assuming the money actually gets spent where it accomplishes something. This has the potential to become another profiteering complex where hundreds of different(and/or redundant) cybersecurity firms exist that nobody can keep track of.
They're pretty big in that space.
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From TFA:
Hey, it's even cooler than Web 2.0 'cause, you know, it's like 3.0.
Anyone got the spec's for "Cyber 2.7"?
Here's an idea. You can have it for free.
How about you have a department of nothing but hackers who try to crack your systems. As they get through, they report what they did and you fix it? No 3.0 needed.
Of course there is. The problem is whether that technology is just a band-aid for core problems in the systems.
You need to identify what can be done with the technology you have today.
That will tell you the flaws in that technology.
Which will tell you what you need to band-aid tomorrow UNTIL you can get the core problems FIXED.
The government is planning on spending $500 billion on Cyber Toilets. A spokesman stated, "It is our goal to get 90% of America's asses covered with Cyber Toilets within the next ten years." A DARPA study revealed that Americans spend an average of 15 minutes on the throne each and every day. Advances in wireless and tablet technology mean that this could be utilized as productive time to leverage the ailing economy. The spokesman continued, "The Japanese not only have shitters that can wash and dry your tush, their potties can roll excellent sushi's, too. We can not, as a country, afford to fall behind in this important technology sector." Recently, a special test program involving US Air Force UAV pilots, proved that pilots were perfectly able to hit targets while taking a dump.
A member of Congress stated, "We can not say 'no' to any spending bill with the word 'cyber' in it. Oooh! 'Cyber' . . . it makes me feel so macho!"
Schroedinger's Brexit: The UK is both in and out of the EU at the same time!
...but shouldn't the real story be the $1.8B left over in the budget for Cyber Offense?
what if it isn't enough? 0.003% of the us american gdp?
How about John Boner's $450 million earmark spending the Pentagon's budget on a project it doesn't even want?
take it from a less merit worthy program. You've already got nearly $700B tax payer dollars. If you'd like some suggestions how about starting here:
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Here's an idea. You can have it for free.
How about you have a department of nothing but hackers who try to crack your systems. As they get through, they report what they did and you fix it? No 3.0 needed.
Out of curiosity how does one form an entire department of highly skilled and reliable workers AND perform security clearance background checks on them for free?
Febuary 17, 2011: The Pentagon loses billions as bored college kid subverts defense systems with a black magic market and some shiny tape.
God damn Slashdot and America are fucking retarded sheep. I hope you feel great about giving 500 million to a government who will further spy on you and kill your beloved internet at anytime.
That is a lot of PFSense boxes
The military is reaching out to commercial companies for the latest technologies and technical experts to safeguard the Pentagon’s computer networks
Old joke:
"What kind of job do you do?" a lady passenger asked the man seated next to her on the airplane.
"I'm a naval surgeon," he replied.
"Goodness!" said the lady, "How you doctors specialize these days!"
Hmm, okay: if it's important to security, don't put it on the damned Internet, and rip the network and wireless cards out of any device that has the data. Station armed guards around the building. Better yet, scribble the information on a napkin in an ancient native language and make it look as unimportant as possible.
You're welcome...please send my 500 million dollar check. Hey you know what, I'll even make it half price and charge you 250 million.
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Update, 16 Feb 2011: Cisco to offer 500 Million Dollar Firewall
If you work in any government agency or hold office with appointees. Look to the right. That person is now either a.) fired or b.) set to prosecute a banister case, or a mortgage fraud paperwork case.
The appointees remaining, are no longer going to be appointed. They are going to be voted for. the voting will happen on paper ballots with the public controlling all aspects of the vote including the oversight. There will be no more EAC. There will be no more electoral college, there will be no more parties because a candidate will have their top 500 foreign and corporate influences instead of a statement. There will be no more corporate broadcast rigged town hall meetings. A media person who is paid is going to have less authority than a media person who isn't.
The idiots working the math, and statistics will be required by law to not play games with numbers. Secrecy will be replaced with public oversight.
Public oversight is coming one way or another.
Bring the troops home, end these insane wars.
Any war in the future will be declared.
War profiteering will be illegal
A modified Logan type act must keep checked our officials agenda, affiliation and motives
Deactivate the DHS, if there are any people who didn't violate the US Constitution by making it intermittent for people, and they haven't broken their oath, then they can contract to go after the banksters. To everyone who did break the oath or the US Constitution, they will never be allowed to contract, work, or serve the United States Of America or it's Territories Government, or any agency thereof, or as an apointee thereof. They're dead-enders as the war criminal rumsfield used to say.
Use US Citizens, and honorable veterans to secure our borders and ports.
A re-visit of 911, and the patriot act and it's consequences on the oath, the constitution, privacy, and the economy is in order. There has to be public oversight.
Drug decriminalization for the green stuff. Change the schedule, end the madness.
FDA
FCC
all these teat sucking fascist agencies need to be thinned and following a growth pattern in the public interest, not a business wrecking pattern destroying everything in it's wake at the benefit of a handful corrupt corporations.
This contracting and outsourcing needs a discussion. We need jobs HERE in the US not in the middle east, and not contracted by the same thugs, war profiteers.
The NSA and CIA and PENTAGON need public oversight of a complete security clearance audit. If you broke your oath your burned like above, if you didn't, you have nothing to worry about.
I am not saying the US can't have security, it certainly can., but it has to have public oversight with teeth to put an end to bad stuff.
0.5 billion on cyber defense and 2.3 billion total for the cyber program. That means 1.3 billion on cyber attack?
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They could give two million, I could do a study for them and actual security would be just as good as before.
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What is the point of security clearance background checks? Establishing street cred?
Why don't they simply make a clone network identical in every way except for every megabyte of actual data on the original, they make an identical megabyte of encrypted login details to paypal accounts pre-loaded with bountys. Make the entire thing a gynormous honeypot. The unemployed blackhats can make a living off of the bountys, and the government only pays for what it gets: zero day exploits BEFORE they compromise something of substantially more value.
As an added bonus, their "crack team" of white hat nancy boys can justify their overpriced, and excessively theoretical educations/qualifications by attempting to keep and maintain a list of all these black hats, while studying the honeypot logs.
It will cost about $500 million to incentivize the right people, but atleast this way: you'll get actual results instead of an increasingly large pool of workers who are constantly on the defensive playing the reactionary, and two steps behind the blackhats.
The reality is, hackers are like shopplifters and thieves. Without a good fence, their skills are largely useless. They have no use for gas centrifuge blueprints or 747 Emergency Landing procedures, so they sell what scores they get for pennies on the dollar because the market for this shit is limited.
Every "contract" is a potential sting. It's no wonder most of them resort to getting involved with DDoS protection rackets or toiling away at identity theft. It's the only way to make rent doing what they love.
White hats will get indignant and pretend they're just as legit as you can get from hiring a criminal but it's bullshit. The only way you get in to the inner circle of these groups is through reputation. That means they would have to be actively involved in criminal shit and therefore not whitehats.
How big of a free pass did they have to write "El Mariachi" in order to bust Shadow Crew? That guy walked away after being complicit in hundreds of thousands of dollars in financial fraud. These deep cover informants are pieces of shit and for every 1 russian mobster they manage to put away, 10 more take their place.
The reactionary shit has got to stop, and these government background checks make our country less safe. Continue driving the talent towards crime for all I care, I lost interest in Computer Security when I realized how bleak the job picture really was. Bunch of diploma mills rubber stamping yuppies while the Military gives all the jobs to the enlisted guy who makes really good coffee and tells funny jokes.