Cyber security plan proposed by White House

17 05 2011 US calls on its Nato partners to help resist cyber-attacks. The US has given the broadest hint yet that a cyber-attack on one Nato country will be regarded as an attack on all. The development is CONTAINED IN A REPORT by the Obama administration - It notes the GROWING THREATS by individual hackers, companies and hostile states, and offers broad proposals on how to tackle these. In 2007, Estonia was almost crippled by a cyber-attack thought to originate in Russia. At the time, Estonia, a member of Nato, said it did not know if the alliance covered cyber-attacks, and the US, Britain and others DANCED ROUND THE ISSUE. At present, INTERNATIONAL LAW LARGELY DOES NOT COVER the internet, nor do international treaties. But the report continues: "The world must collectively recognise the CHALLENGES POSED BY MALEVOLENT ACTORS' ENTRY INTO CYBERSPACE, and update and strengthen our national and international policies accordingly. Hillary Clinton - "While the INTERNET offers new ways for people to exercise their political rights, it ALSO, as we have seen very clearly in the last months, gives governments new tools for CLAMPING DOWN ON DISSENT.". The report WANTS STATES TO WORK TOGETHER to give better protection. When a crime is committed INTERNATIONALLY, law enforcement agencies are ABLE TO COLLABORATE to safeguard and share evidence and bring individuals to justice," the report says. WHILE CONDEMNING CYBER-ATTACKS, at the same time the US, along with Israel, is widely believed to have been responsible for the Stuxnet virus that Iran claims disrupted its nuclear programme.The administration last week sent proposals to Congress to put pressure on companies to improve security. The US funds schemes to develop new technologies and train activists to evade government controls. But activists accuse it of HYPOCRISY for insisting the internet must also have "rule of law": a signal that unauthorised breaches such as WikiLeaks will not be tolerated.  READ from above: CHALLENGES POSED BY MALEVOLENT ACTORS' ENTRY INTO CYBERSPACE Now read: 17 03 2011 US spy operation that manipulates social media. The US military is developing software that will let it secretly manipulate social media using fake online personas designed to influence internet conversations and spread pro-American propaganda. A Californian corporation has been awarded a contract - THE CONTRACT STIPULATES each persona must have a convincing background, history and supporting details, and that up to 50 controllers must be able to operate false identities from their workstations "without fear of being discovered by sophisticated adversaries". Centcom's contract requires the provision of one "VIRTUAL PRIVATE SERVER" in the United States and eight appearing to be outside the US to give the impression the fake personas are real people located in different parts of the world. . It calls for "traffic mixing", blending the persona controllers' internet usage with the usage of people outside Centcom in a manner that must offer "EXCELLENT COVER AND POWERFUL DENIABILITY". ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// How can one promote one "thing" while doing exactly the opposite?. HYPOCRISY