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p2pnet.net News:- America’s CIA is using the Net to test its effectiveness against terrorist attacks.
Silent Horizon, its “secretive” war game to, “practice defending against an electronic assault on the same scale as the Sept. 11 terrorism attacks,” finishes today, says the Associated Press, going on:
“The three-day exercise … was meant to test the ability of government and industry to respond to escalating Internet disruptions over many months, according to participants. They spoke on condition of anonymity because the CIA asked them not to disclose details of the sensitive exercise taking place in Charlottesville, Va., about two hours southwest of Washington.”
AP says the scenario was based on a ”fictional alliance of anti-American organizations, including anti-globalization hackers” in 2010 and the CIA’s little-known Information Operations Center, which evaluates threats to US computer systems from foreign governments, criminal organizations and hackers, ran it.
Some 75 people, mostly from the CIA, “gathered in conference rooms and reacted to signs of mock computer attacks,” says the story, adding:
“ ‘Livewire,’ an earlier cyberterrorism exercise for the Homeland Security Department and other federal agencies, concluded there were serious questions about government’s role during a cyberattack, depending on who was identified as the culprit - terrorists, a foreign government or bored teenagers.
“It also questioned whether the U.S. government would be able to detect the early stages of such an attack without significant help from private technology companies.”
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Associated Press - CIA Overseeing 3-Day War Game on Internet, May 26, 2005
May 26th, 2005 at 5:08 pm
It would be nice if the U.S. Government and the cartels just quit making new enemies. The international cartels and various governments think they can just do whatever they want to whomever they want and just walk away unscathed. But times are changing. Different people are grouping together and coming up with ways of showing these governments and cartels that they too can be punished. I would mind seeing some of these companies who outsource jobs to slave labor get a bit of punishment.
May 26th, 2005 at 6:01 pm
Yeah, let’s prepare for hackers knockin’ out a teeny little system here or a teeny little system there, while, at the same time, ignoring the “stinky moose” of the threat of a high-altitude EMP nuke knocking out the whole Internet. (http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=44069)
This is just more evidence to me that the CIA is over-run with “moles” who are out to waste our country’s resources on chasing geese, so that we don’t prepare for real threats.