Archive for the 'Infrastructure' Category
The New PSYOP Payload: Bird Flu and the Collapse of the Internet
February 14th, 2007I’m still paying attention to the fallout from the incident involving the root DNS nodes. In the course of following that story, I came across the Strong Angel III operation, which proposed a scenario involving a pandemic avian flu outbreak with follow-on strategic information warfare attacks. Today, Slashdot linked to a story from last June […]
U.S. Military Plans for Cyber Counterattack
February 12th, 2007Via: Network World: If the United States found itself under a major cyberattack aimed at undermining the nation’s critical information infrastructure, the Department of Defense is prepared, based on the authority of the president, to launch a cyber counterattack or an actual bombing of an attack source. … This week’s massive but unsuccessful denial-of-service (DoS) […]
DISA Plans New Top-Secret Presidential Network
February 9th, 2007The focus on HEMP is interesting. Via: fcw.com: The White House Communications Agency (WHCA) has developed a six-year plan budgeted at $35 million to beef up presidential communications with a new top-secret network and multimedia Crisis Management System (CMS) designed to operate in a wide range of fixed locations, on Air Force One and on […]
NSA Electricity Crisis Gets Senate Scrutiny
February 9th, 2007Via: Baltimore Sun: The National Security Agency’s impending electricity shortfall is “sort of a national catastrophe,” Sen. John D. Rockefeller IV, the chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, said yesterday. Rockefeller, who took over as head of the panel when Democrats regained control of the Senate this month, called the power shortage a symptom of […]
U.S. Plans to ‘Fight the Net’
January 31st, 2007Oh what a difference a decade makes. A little less that that, in this case. In 1995, when I first suggested to a professor that net centric warfare would become a core military competency, right along with rockets, rifles and bombs, I got a bit of a laugh. He let me write my paper anyway. […]
iPhone as Infrastructure Bomb?
January 12th, 2007Steve Jobs dropped a serious clanger in a recent interview. The iPhone is locked down because, “Cingular doesn’t want to see their West Coast network go down because some application messed up.” iPhone as infrastructure bomb? HAHAHA Luckily, it’s a simple matter to step outside the Steve Jobs Reality Distortion Field: First, Cingular’s West Coast […]
Iran Threatens to Block Strait of Hormuz
January 9th, 2007If you haven’t read The Strait of Hormuz: It’s Not That Bad, It’s Worse, it might be worth checking out now. Additionally, when oil was trading near record highs, I wrote that oil could, “Easily go to $45 before it goes to $200.” Oil is now trading around $55. Could the world go from relatively […]
Intelink.gov User Visits Cryptogon
November 30th, 2006The Open Source Information System/Intelink user (host: fw1.intelink.gov, ip: 65.222.132.2) conducted the following Google search: sean gorman homeland.
