[122746] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: "Cyber Shockwave" on CNN
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (andrew.wallace)
Sat Feb 20 17:46:56 2010
Date: Sat, 20 Feb 2010 14:46:17 -0800 (PST)
From: "andrew.wallace" <andrew.wallace@rocketmail.com>
To: Michael Painter <tvhawaii@shaka.com>
In-Reply-To: <FECF93FD8A374EAF9B30752D638DC69C@DELL16>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
--- On Sat, 20/2/10, Michael Painter <tvhawaii@shaka.com> wrote:=0A=0A> Fro=
m: Michael Painter <tvhawaii@shaka.com>=0A> Subject: Re: "Cyber Shockwave" =
on CNN=0A> To: nanog@nanog.org=0A> Date: Saturday, 20 February, 2010, 22:18=
=0A> andrew.wallace wrote:=0A> > It looks like this demo is pressing ahead =
for the=0A> intro of allowing the US Government to take control of=0A> priv=
ate sector =0A> > networks=0A> > "in an emergency"... and wants to include =
smart phones=0A> into the bargin.=0A> >=0A> > Or at least that is my interp=
retation of what the demo=0A> is trying to convince us on.=0A> >=0A> > Cybe=
r Shockwave Reveals Unsettling Answers ---=0A> >=0A> > http://www.mi2g.com/=
cgi/mi2g/frameset.php?pageid=3Dhttp%3A//www.mi2g.com/cgi/mi2g/press/180210.=
php=0A> >=0A> > Andrew=0A> =0A> =0A> My favorite: "What was most troubling =
to the participants=0A> was their inability to find a guilty party." =0A> =
=0A=0AThey could of at least of said Al-Queda for the sake of the programme=
. :)=0A=0AIt's obvious though, they don't know who the enemy would be. =0A=
=0AThey try however, to generally say China and Russia have the strongest *=
cyber* capability... however, there is no intelligence that either countrie=
s are 'planning' such an attack.=0A=0AIt's all 'what if'.=0A=0ABring us act=
ual intelligence on a threat that X regime wants to Y to cause Z instead of=
throw away doomsday scenarios with no real-life context.=0A=0AThe suicide =
bombers are happy doing their suicides, the Russians are happy keeping thei=
r nukes pointing at US with a 33 minute ATA, and The Mossad are happy carry=
ing out their hotel assassinations.=0A=0AAnd The Chinese are possibly happy=
doing corporate espionage.=0A=0AI don't see any of US's enemies suddenly t=
urning 'cyber' on us.=0A=0ASure, those enemies are using the internet for e=
spoinage, but its not within their interest to take down US networks, becau=
se then they wouldn't have espoinage routes in and out of America anymore.=
=0A=0AThey could do it to try and blind The NSA, but that would be blinding=
their own signals intelligence operations in and out of US as well.=0A=0AA=
ndrew=0A=0A=0A
