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Cyberattack is an ever present threat
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by YankeeJim | October 28, 2011 at 05:22 am
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Inventing the games while playing them
Wanted and needed are strong minds to defend against enemies who also amass strong minds. It takes a special breed to have the motivation to work in this arena. It is akin to computer gaming though different in that the engineers are competing in the creation of new games all of the time. It is not just playing the game, but inventing them while playing.
“Janet Napolitano: Hackers have ‘come close’ to major cyberattack
By Ed O'Keefe
Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano spends a considerable amount of time dealing with cybersecurity threats, including potential attacks on the nation’s infrastructure. But don’t ask her to detail the nation’s biggest cyber enemies.
“Oh, I don’t rank them, this isn’t basketball or something,” Napolitano said Thursday, earning her a laugh at the start of a Washington Post Live event on cybersecurity. “Threats are threats.”
Hackers have “come close”several times to shutting down elements of the nation’s infrastructure, she said, noting that Wall Street firms and transportation systems are frequent cyberattack targets.
“I think we all have to be concerned about a network intrusion that shuts down part of the nation’s infrastructure in such a fashion that it results in a loss of life,” she said.
Asked how many cyberattacks might have occurred over the course of her 45-minute Q&A session, Napolitano responded, “Thousands.”
The Department of Homeland Security is in the process of hiring about 1,000 cybersecurity specialists to combat the fast-evolving issue — and Napolitano said she would have “every cyber geek in the United States” working for her if she could.
The 1,000 hires may sound impressive, but it pales in comparison to the 3,000 specialists that the National Security Agency plans to hire to combat the issue by the end of fiscal 2012 — and the thousands more fighting cybercrime at an alphabet soup of other agencies.
But in the end, Napolitano said she believes that Homeland Security needs to serve as the nation’s “incident response center” in the event of a major attack.”
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at 06:18 on October 28th, 2011
ARE U.S. GOVERNMENT AGENCIES AND COMMANDS THE BIGGEST THREAT TO CYBER-FREEDOM OF U.S. CITIZENS -- UNDER THE GUISE OF CYBER-SECURITY?'
Consider this...
Comment to philly.com re: Springsteen exhibit coming to National Constitution Center elicits PHONY "will be reviewed for publication" on-screen message (comments typically post immediately) -- more apparent CENSORSHIP by Lockheed Martin under U.S. gov't contract. The apparently censored comment:
I trust that the Boss will use the opening ceremony to politely denounce the federal government's war on the U.S. Constitution, as evidenced by: nullification of due process via extrajudicial killing of American citizens; ongoing warrantless surveillance; threatened shutdowns of websites for posting content deemed critical of the government, veiled as enforcement of copyright laws; and a covert program of real-time interception and censorship of the telecommunications of thousands of extrajudicially "targeted" Americans, as exposed by this veteran Philly journalist here:
http://nowpublic.com/world/u-s-govt-censors-internet-political-speech-fraud-deception
Will the censors dare to deep-six THIS internet comment? Let's see...
APPARENTLY THEY CONSIDERED IT, because the above comment did not post for nearly a half hour -- UNTIL I PUBLISHED THE ABOVE AFTER-ACTION REPORT ON MY FACEBOOK PAGE AND ON BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN'S FACEBOOK PAGE.
at 07:15 on October 28th, 2011
We are going to have special Social Security accounts in which you may buy shares of LMCO stock. You will never want to cut the Defense budget again because that is your future.
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Yosemite Sam (not verified)at 08:56 on October 28th, 2011
The "defense" budget is not for defending Americans but oppressing them. It is Orwellian speak, that is, the "opposite" of what it says. The "defense" budget is, in reality, the "war" budget. This budget goes into the pockets of the very RICH (who own corps like Halliburton, Northrop Gummon) who make the weapons that the Shadow Military Junta uses to steal the Mideast countries' oil, whose profits, again, go to the very RICH (who own BP, Exxon, etc). Your shares in those same "defense" corporations will lose their value at the whim of the CEOs of these corporations. Wake up and smell the coffee.
at 09:16 on October 28th, 2011
YankeeJim and Yosemite Sam used to fish together with Rudyard Kipling when he stopped by.
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Yosemite Sam (not verified)at 11:03 on October 28th, 2011
Yes, I remember it well, you were always swimming up Mainstream and I had to keep removing the Old Colonial's hook from your lip. Nothing has changed.
at 11:44 on October 28th, 2011
Ha, hah, ha!
at 12:50 on October 28th, 2011
Bruce is watching.
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"thirty-aught-six" (not verified)at 06:55 on October 28th, 2011
How this terrible fact of liberal pro-statism falls across all Americans! Complacent optimisms of a free society, so widely current recently, are put out of court by it. The pleasant interpretations mediocrity formulates of the universe are torn to tatters. Our freedoms having made us victims. There is at least the refreshment of standing face to face with brute actuality, though it crash all our "little systems" to the ground. The victim is about to become truly a victim by their own hand. Philosophy must wait. The interpretations cannot be hastened, while the facts are multiplying with such bewildering rapidity. The one certainty is that an entirely new world is being born— with special thanks to liberals, those social victims and their NWO. Our rights and freedoms are being usurped by the State for the State and the citizen subservient to the State. The social victim philosophy becomes the self-fulfilling prophecy. The liberals cry the State will see to our needs. The price of liberty small indeed for such security from the trials and tribulations borne by the self-actualized free man.
at 07:25 on October 28th, 2011
I swear you have at least three or four different personalities. Thirty-aught-Sybil
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"thirty-aught-six" (not verified)at 08:50 on October 28th, 2011
You do little to present any argument that would counter your overt support of "The State" and statism in terms that man’s life and work belong to the state—to society, that the state may dispose of him in any way it pleases for the sake of whatever it deems to be its own collective good. This Statism is further championed in your constant call for individual rights and freedoms to be supplanted by the institution of "Social Rights" and their acceptance as a suitable and equal replacement.
Whatever it is you swear to -is not to be trusted. As the liberal whim blows so does your philosophy, the only constant being your statist[social victim]collectivism. And the final destruction of the individual. This is also evident in your classist approach to society where you maintain that an elite endowed with special mystic insight should rule men. In which case not surprisingly only liberals get a pass from you in "the who meets my criteria for president" game.
at 09:21 on October 28th, 2011
I hung around the oppressors all of my life and have been brainwashed by them so I can no longer think for myself.
Here's one for you. My old boss. You'd love him.
http://my.nowpublic.com/tech-biz/mantech-move-again
at 09:37 on October 28th, 2011
I know some liberals. Some liberals are friends of mine. Yankee Jim is no liberal. He is a marginally useful cog in an evil machine, the lede psyops agent assigned to NowPublic.com and a major reason for its diminishing credibility. He is forcing me to find a new base; maybe that was part of his mission...
at 11:47 on October 28th, 2011
Where you go, I will follow. Bzt. Bzt.
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"thirty-aught-six" (not verified)at 06:12 on October 29th, 2011
Once you've got your expanded liberal cyberspy unit in place and it is duplicated by every other government service that uses a computer[what's that? another 50,000 SEIU members] you wont have to follow Scrivener. He'll have his own mandatory government issued iflop app that will track his every move with a union agent to back up the electronic data in real time. Well, except for half-hour breaks on the hour of a six hour work day, six paid sick days a week, all holidays whether they be Christian, Jew, Muslim or Pagan, stress leave[to be determined], and 30 days paid vacation. The apps .exe file will probably be hacked before it's public release... so other than the extortionate cost to the taxpayer in support of the liberals big government agenda, the surveillance wont be all that intrusive. Probably the only time you'll see the union liberal watcher is when you are about to have sex or sitting on the toilet.
at 06:30 on October 29th, 2011
That is extremely funny and accurate. You cannot replicate the humor from realtiy.
at 13:35 on November 3rd, 2011
WASHINGTON (AP) – U.S. intelligence officials accused China and Russia on Thursday of systematically stealing American high-tech data for their own national economic gain.