/. [CIA's Info Ops Team Hosts 3-Day Cyber Wargame]
Link: http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/05/26/044209 Posted by: samzenpus, on 2005-05-26 06:03:00 from the do-you-want-to-play-a-game dept. ScentCone writes "The CIA has booked some conference rooms and is [1]working through a simulated 'digital Pearl Harbor' to see how government and industry handle a monster net attack from an imaginary future foe composed of anti-American and anti-globalization hackers. Having been accused of lacking imagination about potential terror attacks, they're using the exercise to better shape the government's roles in a variety of attack scenarios. The networking industry, it seems, is expected to always play a big part in detecting and thwarting such threats, as 9/11-scale economic disruption is a likely bad-guy objective." References 1. http://apnews.myway.com/article/20050525/D8AAFUIO2.html ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org">leitl</a> ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.leitl.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE [demime 1.01d removed an attachment of type application/pgp-signature which had a name of signature.asc]
Other versions of the press release are fairly amusing, and can be paraphrased as follows: "Imagining a world where most nations are allied against the United States, the CIA is currently..." -TD
From: Eugen Leitl <eugen@leitl.org> To: cypherpunks@jfet.org, transhumantech@yahoogroups.com Subject: /. [CIA's Info Ops Team Hosts 3-Day Cyber Wargame] Date: Thu, 26 May 2005 13:18:28 +0200
Link: http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/05/26/044209 Posted by: samzenpus, on 2005-05-26 06:03:00
from the do-you-want-to-play-a-game dept. ScentCone writes "The CIA has booked some conference rooms and is [1]working through a simulated 'digital Pearl Harbor' to see how government and industry handle a monster net attack from an imaginary future foe composed of anti-American and anti-globalization hackers. Having been accused of lacking imagination about potential terror attacks, they're using the exercise to better shape the government's roles in a variety of attack scenarios. The networking industry, it seems, is expected to always play a big part in detecting and thwarting such threats, as 9/11-scale economic disruption is a likely bad-guy objective."
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1. http://apnews.myway.com/article/20050525/D8AAFUIO2.html
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