[117183] in Cypherpunks
Re: IP: Startegic Assessment: The Internet
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Anonymous)
Fri Aug 27 22:56:51 1999
Date: Sat, 28 Aug 1999 04:29:55 +0200 (CEST)
Message-Id: <199908280229.EAA31093@mail.replay.com>
From: Anonymous <nobody@replay.com>
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Reply-To: Anonymous <nobody@replay.com>
>Prepared by Mr. Charles Swett
>Assistant for Strategic Assessment
>
>Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Special Operations and
>Low-Intensity Conflict
>(Policy Planning)
>Intelligence
>At the same time, it should be noted that a great deal of the message
>traffic
>on the Internet is idle chit-chat with no intelligence value whatsoever, a
>veritable "Tower of Babble."
Fuck you and the missile you rode in on.
>Monitoring of that traffic would need to be
>supported by automated filter s that pass through for human analysis only
>those messages that satisfy certain relevance criteria.
That's right, jarhead, ignore english-like streams.
>suspect: "Information and disinformation about breaking events are pretty
>raw
>on the Net. That's the point."
No, critical thinking is the point.
>If it became widely known that DoD were monitoring Internet traffic for
>intelligence or counterintelligence purposes, individuals with personal
>agendas or political purposes in mind, or who enjoy playing pranks, would
>deliberately enter false or misleadin g messages.
Too late!
>to establish contacts and closer working relationships with non-governmental
>organizations.
Getting corporations hooked on Sam's Teat?
>tend to watch each other, and it is likely that "moles" will obtain access
>to
>the other camps' networks for the purpose of disrupting their operations.
Hi Jeff. Stopped beating your wife?
>This would tend to weaken the protection afforded by coding or encrypting
>messages.
Trust remains important in the info age.
>Using this information,
>it would be possible to employ the Internet as an additional m edium for
>Psychological Operations (Psyops) campaigns.
For instance, we could ask candidates for office about
their recreational pharmaceutical 'experiments'.
>E-mail conveying the U.S.
>perspective on issues and events could be efficiently and rapidly
>disseminated to a very wide audience.
PSYOPSPAM
>The U.S. might be able to employ the Internet offensively to help achieve
>unconventional warfare objectives.
Sounds like Voice of America to me.
>own kinds of risks, they would have the benefit of reducing the physical
>risks to our special forces personnel
pushbutton SEALs?
>NOTE: The recommendations listed below should be carried out only in full
>compliance with the letter and the spirit of the law, and without violating
>the privacy of American citizens
Can I get some of what he's smoking?
>outlets to provide them with this traffic, subject to appropriate relevance
>filters.
I got your relevence filter right here.
>•DoD intelligence agencies should investigate the role of the Internet in
>helping coordinate the operations of political activists and paramilitary
>groups in regions of interest
DoD had better realize that Saddam can do traffic analysis
as well as anyone.
>•The OSD Public Affairs site on the Internet
>should accept feedback from callers and should provide responses, using the
>full potential of the Internet for supporting DoD public affairs programs.
Natsecdiginarc
>Although it would be impractical to provide an individua l reply to every
>incoming e-mail message, statistical profiles of opinions conveyed by large
>volumes of messages could be used to compose periodic DoD bulletins
>addressing them in general terms. This would help provide a semi-interactive
>environment
[ie, propoganda for the slow set]
>•The Internet should be incorporated in our Psyops planning as an additional
>medium.
And mil psyops will be a focus of the internet, baby.
