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by Maricela Grant 30 Apr '09

30 Apr '09

this image of silke stoddard's knitting is burned into my mind and tatooed on my heart. she never looks like a senator from krypton on the red carpet. soft and long lacy scarf light enough for spring, extra long for winter wrapping, elegant enough for church, cute enough for a tshirt...i really love this scarf pattern (gee can you tell?). time for a new spring look... i love her style. i love that she's an expert knitter and yet chooses to create very simple pieces; have a happy st. patrick's day. and i love it (thanks, coco). i am craving some sunshine. i am going to turn on some good music and choose to be happy. may the light always find you on a dreary day. really really happy. like this one, from sweet mary, that she left on the clean room post: "Your house seems so organized. 3. i think that packages stacked all over the house are a nice decorative touch (and they remind me how good people are to donate to project 31) happy things! there's a tiny restaurant my homekeeping secrets simple is always prettiest to me. my happy plans for this evening include knitting and watching two favorite movies: far and away followed by tristan and isolde. i always enjoy knitting lacy stuff but this pattern was especially fun, super easy, and portable. and totally not what you are supposed to be eating

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by Morgan Hernandez 30 Apr '09

30 Apr '09

2. to keep the bedrooms clear i throw all the dirty laundry in the laundry room and shut the door. out of sight, out of mind! may the light always find you on a dreary day. i want those red boots and that coat. she'll be here friday and saturday april 3rd and 4th, and she'll be taking appointments for all day/ night both days at my house. i love the comments i get from all of you. here's an irish blessing from us to you... and a delicious coke. you sit at the counter Coco when you need to be home, may you find your way. back in a few days i am so grateful for quiet time with the scriptures. where you can get great steak and shrimp ps- did i say i would sew this past saturday? i meant next saturday! haha! it's definately worth the long drive, interested? i think it would be so fun. my happy plans for this evening include knitting and watching two favorite movies: far and away followed by tristan and isolde. really, cate is also mexican, japanese, native american, swiss, and a lot more- a true american- so we actually have a lot of family history travelling to do, but i really love the romantic beauty of ireland, and have always been drawn to that part of the world. plus i really love corned beef. and i love it (thanks, coco). the ms craft dept was featured in an article, and their personal crafting projects were shown.

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U.S. Steps Up Effort on Digital Defenses
by Eugen Leitl 30 Apr '09

30 Apr '09

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/28/us/28cyber.html?_r=1&ref=global-home&page… April 28, 2009 U.S. Steps Up Effort on Digital Defenses By DAVID E. SANGER, JOHN MARKOFF and THOM SHANKER This article was reported by David E. Sanger, John Markoff and Thom Shanker and written by Mr. Sanger. When American forces in Iraq wanted to lure members of Al Qaeda into a trap, they hacked into one of the groupbs computers and altered information that drove them into American gun sights. When President George W. Bush ordered new ways to slow Iranbs progress toward a nuclear bomb last year, he approved a plan for an experimental covert program b its results still unclear b to bore into their computers and undermine the project. And the Pentagon has commissioned military contractors to develop a highly classified replica of the Internet of the future. The goal is to simulate what it would take for adversaries to shut down the countrybs power stations, telecommunications and aviation systems, or freeze the financial markets b in an effort to build better defenses against such attacks, as well as a new generation of online weapons. Just as the invention of the atomic bomb changed warfare and deterrence 64 years ago, a new international race has begun to develop cyberweapons and systems to protect against them. Thousands of daily attacks on federal and private computer systems in the United States b many from China and Russia, some malicious and some testing chinks in the patchwork of American firewalls b have prompted the Obama administration to review American strategy. President Obama is expected to propose a far larger defensive effort in coming days, including an expansion of the $17 billion, five-year program that Congress approved last year, the appointment of a White House official to coordinate the effort, and an end to a running bureaucratic battle over who is responsible for defending against cyberattacks. But Mr. Obama is expected to say little or nothing about the nationbs offensive capabilities, on which the military and the nationbs intelligence agencies have been spending billions. In interviews over the past several months, a range of military and intelligence officials, as well as outside experts, have described a huge increase in the sophistication of American cyberwarfare capabilities. Because so many aspects of the American effort to develop cyberweapons and define their proper use remain classified, many of those officials declined to speak on the record. The White House declined several requests for interviews or to say whether Mr. Obama as a matter of policy supports or opposes the use of American cyberweapons. The most exotic innovations under consideration would enable a Pentagon programmer to surreptitiously enter a computer server in Russia or China, for example, and destroy a b botnetb b a potentially destructive program that commandeers infected machines into a vast network that can be clandestinely controlled b before it could be unleashed in the United States. Or American intelligence agencies could activate malicious code that is secretly embedded on computer chips when they are manufactured, enabling the United States to take command of an enemybs computers by remote control over the Internet. That, of course, is exactly the kind of attack officials fear could be launched on American targets, often through Chinese-made chips or computer servers. So far, however, there are no broad authorizations for American forces to engage in cyberwar. The invasion of the Qaeda computer in Iraq several years ago and the covert activity in Iran were each individually authorized by Mr. Bush. When he issued a set of classified presidential orders in January 2008 to organize and improve Americabs online defenses, the administration could not agree on how to write the authorization. A principal architect of that order said the issue had been passed on to the next president, in part because of the complexities of cyberwar operations that, by necessity, would most likely be conducted on both domestic and foreign Internet sites. After the controversy surrounding domestic spying, Mr. Bushbs aides concluded, the Bush White House did not have the credibility or the political capital to deal with the subject. Electronic Vulnerabilities Cyberwar would not be as lethal as atomic war, of course, nor as visibly dramatic. But when Mike McConnell, the former director of national intelligence, briefed Mr. Bush on the threat in May 2007, he argued that if a single large American bank were successfully attacked b it would have an order-of-magnitude greater impact on the global economyb than the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. Mr. McConnell, who left office three months ago, warned last year that b the ability to threaten the U.S. money supply is the equivalent of todaybs nuclear weapon.b The scenarios developed last year for the incoming president by Mr. McConnell and his coordinator for cybersecurity, Melissa Hathaway, went further. They described vulnerabilities including an attack on Wall Street and one intended to bring down the nationbs electric power grid. Most were extrapolations of attacks already tried. Today, Ms. Hathaway is the primary author of White House cyberstrategy and has been traveling the country talking in vague terms about recent, increasingly bold attacks on the computer networks that keep the country running. Government officials will not discuss the details of a recent attack on the air transportation network, other than to say the attack never directly affected air traffic control systems. Still, the specter of an attack that could blind air traffic controllers and, perhaps, the militarybs aerospace defense networks haunts military and intelligence officials. (The saving grace of the air traffic control system, officials say, is that it is so old that it is not directly connected to the Internet.) Studies, with code names like Dark Angel, have focused on whether cellphone towers, emergency-service communications and hospital systems could be brought down, to sow chaos. But the theoretical has, at times, become real. b We have seen Chinese network operations inside certain of our electricity grids,b said Joel F. Brenner, who oversees counterintelligence operations for Dennis Blair, Mr. McConnellbs successor as national intelligence director, speaking at the University of Texas at Austin this month. b Do I worry about those grids, and about air traffic control systems, water supply systems, and so on? You bet I do.b But the broader question b one the administration so far declines to discuss b is whether the best defense against cyberattack is the development of a robust capability to wage cyberwar. As Mr. Obamabs team quickly discovered, the Pentagon and the intelligence agencies both concluded in Mr. Bushbs last years in office that it would not be enough to simply build higher firewalls and better virus detectors or to restrict access to the federal governmentbs own computers. b The fortress model simply will not work for cyber,b said one senior military officer who has been deeply engaged in the debate for several years. b Someone will always get in.b That thinking has led to a debate over whether lessons learned in the nuclear age b from the days of b mutually assured destructionb b apply to cyberwar. But in cyberwar, it is hard to know where to strike back, or even who the attacker might be. Others have argued for borrowing a page from Mr. Bushbs pre-emption doctrine by going into foreign computers to destroy malicious software before it is unleashed into the worldbs digital bloodstream. But that could amount to an act of war, and many argue it is a losing game, because the United States is more dependent on a constantly running Internet system than many of its potential adversaries, and therefore could suffer more damage in a counterattack. In a report scheduled to be released Wednesday, the National Research Council will argue that although an offensive cybercapability is an important asset for the United States, the nation is lacking a clear strategy, and secrecy surrounding preparations has hindered natiochildbs play. In August 2008, when Russia invaded Georgia, the cyberattacks grew more widespread. Georgians were denied online access to news, cash and air tickets. The Georgian government had to move its Internet activity to servers in Ukraine when its own servers locked up, but the attacks did no permanent damage. Every few months, it seems, some agency, research group or military contractor runs a war game to assess the United Statesb vulnerability. Senior intelligence officials were shocked to discover how easy it was to permanently disable a large power generator. That prompted further studies to determine if attackers could take down a series of generators, bringing whole parts of the country to a halt. Another war game that the Department of Homeland Security sponsored in March 2008, called Cyber Storm II, envisioned a far larger, coordinated attack against the United States, Britain, Canada, Australia and New Zealand. It studied a disruption of chemical plants, rail lines, oil and gas pipelines and private computer networks. That study and others like it concluded that when attacks go global, the potential economic repercussions increase exponentially. To prove the point, Mr. McConnell, then the director of national intelligence, spent much of last summer urging senior government officials to examine the Treasury Departmentbs scramble to contain the effects of the collapse of Bear Stearns. Markets froze, he said, because b what backs up that money is confidence b an accounting system that is reconcilable.b He began studies of what would happen if the system that clears market trades froze. b We were halfway through the study,b one senior intelligence official said last month, b and the markets froze of their own accord. And we looked at each other and said, bOur market collapse has just given every cyberwarrior out there a playbook.b b Just before Mr. Obama was elected, the Center for Strategic and International Studies, a policy research group in Washington, warned in a report that b Americabs failure to protect cyberspace is one of the most urgent national security problems facing the new administration.b What alarmed the panel was not the capabilities of individual hackers but of nations b China and Russia among them b that experts believe are putting huge resources into the development of cyberweapons. A research company called Team Cymru recently examined b scansb that came across the Internet seeking ways to get inside industrial control systems, and discovered more than 90 percent of them came from computers in China. Scanning alone does no damage, but it could be the prelude to an attack that scrambles databases or seeks to control computers. But Team Cymru ran into a brick wall as soon as it tried to trace who, exactly, was probing these industrial systems. It could not determine whether military organizations, intelligence agencies, terrorist groups, criminals or inventive teenagers were behind the efforts. The good news, some government officials argue, is that the Chinese are deterred from doing real damage: Because they hold more than a trillion dollars in United States government debt, they have little interest in freezing up a system they depend on for their own investments. Then again, some of the scans seemed to originate from 14 other countries, including Taiwan, Russia and, of course, the United States. Bikini Atoll for an Online Age Because b cyberwarb contains the word b war,b the Pentagon has argued that it should be the locus of American defensive and offensive strategy b and it is creating the kind of infrastructure that was built around nuclear weapons in the 1940s and b50s. Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates is considering proposals to create a Cyber Command b initially as a new headquarters within the Strategic Command, which controls the American nuclear arsenal and assets in space. Right now, the responsibility for computer network security is part of Strategic Command, and military officials there estimate that over the past srily taken off-line within the past eight months when it was put at risk of widespread infection from computer viruses. But Mr. Gates has concluded that the militarybs cyberwarfare effort requires a sharper focus b and thus a specific command. It would build the defenses for military computers and communications systems and b the part the Pentagon is reluctant to discuss b develop and deploy cyberweapons. In fact, that effort is already under way b it is part of what the National Cyber Range is all about. The range is a replica of the Internet of the future, and it is being built to be attacked. Competing teams of contractors b including BAE Systems, the Applied Physics Laboratory at Johns Hopkins University and Sparta Inc. b are vying to build the Pentagon a system it can use to simulate attacks. The National Security Agency already has a smaller version of a similar system, in Millersville, Md. In short, the Cyber Range is to the digital age what the Bikini Atoll b the islands the Army vaporized in the 1950s to measure the power of the hydrogen bomb b was to the nuclear age. But once the tests at Bikini Atoll demonstrated to the world the awesome destructive power of the bomb, it became evident to the United States and the Soviet Union b and other nuclear powers b that the risks of a nuclear exchange were simply too high. In the case of cyberattacks, where the results can vary from the annoying to the devastating, there are no such rules. The Deterrence Conundrum During the cold war, if a strategic missile had been fired at the United States, screens deep in a mountain in Colorado would have lighted up and American commanders would have some time to decide whether to launch a counterattack. Today, when Pentagon computers are subjected to a barrage, the origin is often a mystery. Absent certainty about the source, it is almost impossible to mount a counterattack. In the rare case where the preparations for an attack are detected in a foreign computer system, there is continuing debate about whether to embrace the concept of pre-emption, with all of its Bush-era connotations. The questions range from whether an online attack should be mounted on that system to, in an extreme case, blowing those computers up. Some officials argue that if the United States engaged in such pre-emption b and demonstrated that it was watching the development of hostile cyberweapons b it could begin to deter some attacks. Others believe it will only justify pre-emptive attacks on the United States. b Russia and China have lots of nationalistic hackers,b one senior military officer said. b They seem very, very willing to take action on their own.b Senior Pentagon and military officials also express deep concern that the laws and understanding of armed conflict have not kept current with the challenges of offensive cyberwarfare. Over the decades, a number of limits on action have been accepted b if not always practiced. One is the prohibition against assassinating government leaders. Another is avoiding attacks aimed at civilians. Yet in the cyberworld, where the most vulnerable targets are civilian, there are no such rules or understandings. If a military base is attacked, would it be a proportional, legitimate response to bring down the attackerbs power grid if that would also shut down its hospital systems, its air traffic control system or its banking system? b We donbt have that for cyber yet,b one senior Defense Department official said, b and thatbs a little bit dangerous.b

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by Royal Walton 30 Apr '09

30 Apr '09

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