Bloggers Fingered as Possible National Security Threat

["Paul Ferguson" <fergdawg () netzero net>]

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Via the Associated Press (Ted Bridis).

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It's the government's idea of a really bad day: Washington's Metro trains
shut down. Seaport computers in New York go dark. Bloggers reveal locations
of railcars with hazardous materials. Airport control towers are disrupted
in Philadelphia and Chicago. Overseas, a mysterious liquid is found on
London's subway.

And that's just for starters.

Those incidents were among dozens of detailed, mock disasters confronting
officials rapid-fire in the U.S. government's biggest-ever "Cyber Storm"
war game, according to hundreds of pages of heavily censored files obtained
by The Associated Press. The Homeland Security Department ran the exercise
to test the nation's hacker defenses, with help from the State Department,
Pentagon, Justice Department, CIA, National Security Agency and others.

The laundry list of fictional catastrophes - which include hundreds of
people on "No Fly" lists suddenly arriving at airport ticket counters - is
significant because it suggests what kind of real-world trouble keeps
people in the White House awake at night.

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More:
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/C/CYBER_STORM?SITE=TXDAM&SECTION=HOME&;
TEMPLATE=DEFAULT

- - ferg

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