U.S. Military Plans for Cyber Counterattack

February 12th, 2007

Via: 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.

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This week’s massive but unsuccessful denial-of-service (DoS) attack on the Internet’s root DNS, which targeted military and other networks, did not rise to the level of requiring response, but made the possibility of a massive Internet collapse more real than theoretical. Had the attack been successful there may have been a cyber counterstrike from the United States…

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2 Responses to “U.S. Military Plans for Cyber Counterattack”

  1. GW says:
    February 12, 2007 at 11:27 am

    Read between the lines: this is simply a military psyop, conditioning the public to accept without question the notion that “terrorists” will be responsible for the global economic collapse, and not reckless government spending sprees.

    You missed this one Sunday AM Kevin:

    “IMF’s de Rato says G-7 countries open minded on gold sales”

    Source:
    http://www.bbj.hu/news/news_22488.html

    Of course, it’s absent from the US edition of CNN. Try searching using either of the keywords “gold” or “IMF,” and there isn’t a mention. The report originates from Hungary. We are indeed on the brink when central banks and the IMF plan to sell their gold to “buy back” fiat monies and petrodollars from China, Japan, Russia, and so on. Especially now when Iran, Russia, Venezuela, and many other oil-producing nations are taking payments for oil in currencies other than the dollar. The effect will be to artificially suppress the price of gold, and keep the dollar looking strong. The price of gold is already dropping since this news first appeared Sunday morning.

    Here it is explained in poetry, for artsy-fartsy types:
    http://bigforks.org/Poetry/GFC.htm

  2. George Kenney says:
    February 12, 2007 at 8:56 pm

    We have to also be ready for an ‘attack’ of anti-american video missiles from the ‘bad guys’.

    http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/02/12/tech/main2461091.shtml

    “Anyone with an Internet connection can watch videos of bombings and sniper attacks against U.S forces — shot and edited by Islamic militants and broadcast on YouTube, the world’s largest video-sharing portal. “

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