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Re: "Cyber Shockwave" on CNN
From: "andrew.wallace" <andrew.wallace () rocketmail com>
Date: Sat, 20 Feb 2010 14:46:17 -0800 (PST)
--- On Sat, 20/2/10, Michael Painter <tvhawaii () shaka com> wrote:
From: Michael Painter <tvhawaii () shaka com> Subject: Re: "Cyber Shockwave" on CNN To: nanog () nanog org Date: Saturday, 20 February, 2010, 22:18 andrew.wallace wrote:It looks like this demo is pressing ahead for theintro of allowing the US Government to take control of private sectornetworks "in an emergency"... and wants to include smart phonesinto the bargin.Or at least that is my interpretation of what the demois trying to convince us on.Cyber Shockwave Reveals Unsettling Answers --- http://www.mi2g.com/cgi/mi2g/frameset.php?pageid=http%3A//www.mi2g.com/cgi/mi2g/press/180210.php AndrewMy favorite: "What was most troubling to the participants was their inability to find a guilty party."
They could of at least of said Al-Queda for the sake of the programme. :) It's obvious though, they don't know who the enemy would be. They try however, to generally say China and Russia have the strongest *cyber* capability... however, there is no intelligence that either countries are 'planning' such an attack. It's all 'what if'. Bring us actual intelligence on a threat that X regime wants to Y to cause Z instead of throw away doomsday scenarios with no real-life context. The suicide bombers are happy doing their suicides, the Russians are happy keeping their nukes pointing at US with a 33 minute ATA, and The Mossad are happy carrying out their hotel assassinations. And The Chinese are possibly happy doing corporate espionage. I don't see any of US's enemies suddenly turning 'cyber' on us. Sure, those enemies are using the internet for espoinage, but its not within their interest to take down US networks, because then they wouldn't have espoinage routes in and out of America anymore. They could do it to try and blind The NSA, but that would be blinding their own signals intelligence operations in and out of US as well. Andrew
Current thread:
- Re: "Cyber Shockwave" on CNN, (continued)
- Re: "Cyber Shockwave" on CNN andrew.wallace (Feb 20)
- Re: "Cyber Shockwave" on CNN Randy Bush (Feb 20)
- Re: "Cyber Shockwave" on CNN andrew.wallace (Feb 20)
- Re: "Cyber Shockwave" on CNN Rodney Joffe (Feb 20)
- RE: "Cyber Shockwave" on CNN Tomas L. Byrnes (Feb 20)
- Re: "Cyber Shockwave" on CNN John Peach (Feb 20)
- Re: "Cyber Shockwave" on CNN Randy Bush (Feb 20)
- Re: "Cyber Shockwave" on CNN Owen DeLong (Feb 20)
- Re: "Cyber Shockwave" on CNN Cian Brennan (Feb 21)
- Re: "Cyber Shockwave" on CNN andrew.wallace (Feb 20)
- Re: "Cyber Shockwave" on CNN Michael Painter (Feb 20)
- Re: "Cyber Shockwave" on CNN andrew.wallace (Feb 20)
- Re: "Cyber Shockwave" on CNN Randy Bush (Feb 20)
- Re: "Cyber Shockwave" on CNN Barry Shein (Feb 20)
- RE: "Cyber Shockwave" on CNN Brandon Kim (Feb 20)
- Re: "Cyber Shockwave" on CNN Jorge Amodio (Feb 20)