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Real-World Cyber City Used To Train Cyber Warriors
Orome1 writes "NetWars CyberCity is a small-scale city located close by the New Jersey Turnpike complete with a bank, hospital, water tower, train system, electric power grid, and a coffee shop. It was developed to teach cyber warriors from the U.S. military how online actions can have kinetic effects. Developed in response to a challenge by U.S. military cyber warriors, NetWars CyberCity is an intense defensive training program organized around missions. 'We've built over eighteen missions, and each of them challenges participants to devise strategies and employ tactics to thwart computer attacks that would cause significant real-world damage,' commented Ed Skoudis, SANS Instructor and NetWars CyberCity Director."
Can the rest of us play too?!
They built a physical city to train people for virtual wars?
That takes wastefulness to artful places.
NetWars CyberCity is a small-scale city located close by the New Jersey Turnpike complete with a bank, hospital, water tower, train system, electric power grid, and a coffee shop.
You take out the electricity, and we will all stumble around wondering how to connect to the net...
You take out the coffee shop, and you will find us all focused on your destruction (or on finding another source of coffee, whichever happens first.)
and... just to keep this one going: http://xkcd.com/705/
"You want to know how to help your kids? Leave them the fuck alone." -George Carlin
Should these things not be on their own separate networks? Do we really need the water tower connected to the internet.
do they wear combat gear while on a mission?
sysadmins and parents of newborns get the same amount of sleep.
The article is confusing... Don't the military have massive basements for this sort of thing? They do in movies. Why the New Jersey Turnpike?
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"... located close by the New Jersey Turnpike..."
Do they have to enter via the inter-dimensional umbilicus on floor 7 1/2 that connects Ed Nort to John Malkovich, or do they just follow Don Adams down an elevator in a phonebooth? No, can't be a phonebooth... that would be far too conspicuous these days.
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In NJ huh? Wonder how long it was without power after hurricane Sandy? Bet they could tell you how to cut it's power, and maybe protect it ... but bet they didn't have a clue about how to get it back. :-)
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And after predefined mission scenarios training, split in two teem, one in defence and the other in offence... the real war begin. But verify that it's the cibercyty than's the targer, not acidently a real city...
"devise strategies and employ tactics to thwart computer attacks". It's well known that defensive military training teaches offensive skills first to teach defensive skills. Personnel trained to find bugs are trained to plant them. Personnel trained to secure areas and material are trained to pick locks and open safes. So NetWars CyberCity might follow the example.
So if you're just some shmo in your parents' basement, you're a hacker (or cracker.. or worst, a terrorist), but when you're part of the military, you're a friggin 'cyber warrior'?? Seriously, that's just fucking stupid.
No sig for you! Come back one year!
Glad to see ALL the bases are covered...
“Made a simulation of New York, sold it to the Russians.” “Made a simulation of Moscow, sold it to the Americans.” “Made a simulation of Tokyo, sold it to the Chinese.”
Just think about that the next time your Internet connection goes out.
Disconnect from the Internet or firewall.
Firewall.
Disconnect from the Internet or firewall.
And, finally, firewall.
Advanced training will include finding the wireless access points that idiots have brought in from home so that they can run their iPhones.
How many Homer Simpson's are assigned to this city? That is where the exploits find the hole. If is just a model city they will never learn anything.
The word "cyber" is like "cloud" or "pirate". Every time you hear it, you know for a fact, that the writer doesn't know shit about computers or the Internet. Same goes for iDevice (/ Win 8/Phone) and Twitter users, but they additionally like to pretend they are "hip" in a ridiculously cringe-worthy fashion. At least they got that cringe-worthiness part in common with the former group.
worst post of the day.
"The town is a virtual place that exists only on computer networks run by a New Jersey-based security firm working under contract with the U.S. Air Force. Computers simulate communications and operations, including e-mail, heating systems, a railroad and an online social networking site, dubbed FaceSpace"
"CyberCity itself fits in a six by eight foot area and was created using miniature buildings and houses, the underlying power control systems, hospital software, and other infrastructures are directly from the real world."
Wait. You're mad at the spin of military focused training names sounding military, but other labels you don't feel are as cool applying to non-military?
For every benefit you receive a tax is levied. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
'We've built over eighteen missions, and each of them challenges participants to devise strategies and employ tactics to thwart computer attacks that would cause significant real-world damage'
Then don't connect your vital infrastructure to the INTERNET !!!
AccountKiller
seems like over kill for cyber wars.
Can do the same in small scare and you can even crash some model trains as part of some missions.
Looks like the generals want to solve the hacker threat in the traditional ways, trying to get some soldiers learn to hack. God forbid they trust civilian whitehats.
You do realize that everyone in the military are trained killers first and foremost. Yes they're warriors. Get back to be when you basement dwelling hackers are trained in small arms, hand to hand and explosives.
That's "killing people and breaking stuff" to you and me.
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Sounds like a secure place. I mean, if that won't slow them, they're screwed anyway.
I think he was quite clear in that if you choose to participate in the fascist totalitarian dictatorship that the USA has become then you are a 'Cyber Warrior" That is you can go ahead and break into anything you want - so as long as you give it to the government, you can be A WARRIOR!!
Or you can go solo in your parents basement and do the same thing, learn much more, and get usually 100x better, and be so enlightened, so much more smarter than then government that you become a 'terrorist' to their plans.
This is not about what sounds cooler image wise. It's about greed and who must have what.
oh joy
time to teach stupid a lesson
I wonder... Is this where Mister Smith and Neo got their training? Great actors, those two.
The be particularly good at nocturnal e-missions.
Is the wet head still dead?
...when all the work is done by machines, and we are all out of jobs, what other things will we do apart from go mad, and be clubbed down by various forces in various interesting ways?
When no one has to work, hopefully we can spend our time enjoying ourselves rather than utterly wasting a third to a half of our waking lives.
Anyone who would go mad without work is mad.
To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=endscreen&v=HlZRcxvGIWE&NR=1
Thank God someone will be out there to defend us against stuff like this.
"With patience a ruler may be persuaded, and a soft tongue will break a bone."