/. [CIA's Info Ops Team Hosts 3-Day Cyber Wargame]

[Tyler Durden]

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 at leitl.org>
>To: cypherpunks at jfet.org, transhumantech at 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."
>
>References
>
>    1. http://apnews.myway.com/article/20050525/D8AAFUIO2.html
>
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