/. [CIA's Info Ops Team Hosts 3-Day Cyber Wargame]
Tyler Durden
camera_lumina at hotmail.com
Thu May 26 07:59:38 PDT 2005
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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