From the AP:
CIA Overseeing 3-Day War Game on Internet
By TED BRIDIS
WASHINGTON - The CIA is conducting a war game this week to simulate an unprecedented, Sept. 11-like electronic assault against the United States. The three-day exercise, known as "Silent Horizon," is meant to test the ability of government and industry to respond to escalating Internet disruptions over many months, according to participants.
We're going to go piece by piece and deconstruct the propaganda here. This is the first paragraph and we've got our first reference to September 11th. That's number 1. There will be more.
This is not an accident. This is intentionally using emotionally impactful imagery to equate the topic of cybersecurity to the most traumatic collective event that most Americans have experienced in their lifetime.
You also have your first invocation of "industry." Don't kid yourself. That's what this is really about. You'll see what I mean in just a bit. Let's continue.
They spoke on condition of anonymity because the CIA asked them not to disclose details of the sensitive exercise taking place in Charlottesville, Va., about two hours southwest of Washington.
Shhhh... This is a super secret national security matter. Yeah, but someone authorized this person to talk to the AP on background, right? Is it really that big of a secret? I don't think we're supposed to ask questions like that, but who gives damn what the Propagandists or their Sheeple (sheep people!) want.
The simulated attacks were carried out five years in the future by a fictional new alliance of anti-American organizations that included anti-globalization hackers. The most serious damage was expected to be inflicted in the closing hours of the war game Thursday.
You see how slyly they have equated Anti-Americanism with Anti-Globalization? What they really mean is quite transparent.
If you are like me and believe that our society has been co-opted by huge multinational corporations, then you are the enemy they're referring to. They want people who don't know anything about cybersecurity to fear you the next time you take your HP Laptop into a Starbucks and sit down.
The national security simulation was significant because its premise - a devastating cyberattack that affects government and parts of the economy on the scale of the 2001 suicide hijackings - contradicts assurances by U.S. counter-terrorism experts that such effects from a cyberattack are highly unlikely.
Oh, there's September 11th again. Even after acknowledging that the experts in the field think this isn't really something we ought to worry about. What do experts know. They're probably baby-killin' America-hatin' liberal experts, right?
"You hear less and less about the digital Pearl Harbor," said Dennis McGrath, who has helped run three similar exercises for the Institute for Security Technology Studies at Dartmouth College. "What people call cyberterrorism, it's just not at the top of the list."
OK, so now we have a reference to Pearl Harbor. Alright. Notice anything else? Remember what I said about the experts who don't think we have to worry about cyber security are most likely going to be labeled as liberal? Well, the one expert quoted here is from Dartmouth. He's worse than most, you see. He's an Ivy League Liberal. Now they can say it... Liberals are soft on cyberterrorism.
The CIA's little-known Information Operations Center, which evaluates threats to U.S. computer systems from foreign governments, criminal organizations and hackers, was running the war game. About 75 people, mostly from the CIA, along with other current and former U.S. officials, gathered in conference rooms and pretended to react to signs of mock computer attacks.
Yeah, this is such a big secret that someone from the CIA is telling an AP reporter. Remember this is the Official Truth, for now.
Also, did you notice how the CIA is running this "with other current and former U.S. officials." You got it... That means the private sector. Here come those corporations again.
The government remains most concerned about terrorists using explosions, radiation and biological threats. FBI Director Robert Mueller warned earlier this year that terrorists increasingly are recruiting computer scientists but said most hackers "do not have the resources or motivation to attack the U.S. critical information infrastructures."
OK, again using they're using the imagery of actual terrorism to drum up the significance of this fake threat. Propagandists are usually more subtle than that.
The government's most recent intelligence assessment of future threats through the year 2020 said cyberattacks are expected but terrorists "will continue to primarily employ conventional weapons." Authorities have expressed concerns about terrorists combining physical attacks such as bombings with hacker attacks to disrupt rescue efforts, known as hybrid or "swarming" attacks.
Terrorist will combine physical attacks with hacker attacks to disrupt rescue efforts.
Now that September 11th has been mentioned a couple of times and Pearl Harbor has also been dropped into the conversation, you're supposed to have the word "heroes" in your mind.
When you hear that terrorists want to disrupt rescue efforts, you're supposed to be thinking of Police Officers and Firefighters dying in an attempt to do their job saving people from the mass carnage of Explosions and Hackers.
"One of the things the intelligence community was accused of was a lack of imagination," said Dorothy Denning of the Naval Postgraduate School, an expert on Internet threats who was invited by the CIA to participate but declined. "You want to think about not just what you think may affect you but about scenarios that might seem unlikely."
Dorothy Denning is in the Navy. None of that Elitist Dartmouth shithead stuff here, boy. You see, the American Military knows what's good for us. We need to be prepared even for the stuff that's not likely to happen. If that Ivy League schmuck is saying that it's not really that big of a concern, it's because liberal elitists hate America.
An earlier cyberterrorism exercise called "Livewire" for the Homeland Security Department and other federal agencies concluded there were serious questions over government's role during a cyberattack depending on who was identified as the culprit - terrorists, a foreign government or bored teenagers.
What? The government may not have the capability of responding to such an event in the manner deserving of proud Americans? What ever can we do to save ourselves from cyberdoom? He need a savior!
It also questioned whether the U.S. government would be able to detect the early stages of such an attack without significant help from private technology companies.
And so we reach the end of the news item and we see what the real motive is. Private Technology Companies are our only hope for salvation. I guess we should hire them to keep us safe. Look what they've done for the airports. Ted Kennedy isn't getting on this flight, damnit!
This is a scam designed to but an unbelievable amount of resources into yet a new corner of the private sector. They'll protect us from terrorists and make sure we don't have an E-9/11 or a Cyber-Pearl-Harbor.
I guess while they're doing that it wouldn't be too hard to set up the monitoring system so that it proactively monitors all internet activity all the time right? We'll of course hear it. "Put on your tinfoil hat, you paranoid hippy!" But, after the PARTIOT ACT, I don't put anything past these assholes.
So, now you have seen how they insert their propaganda into the public conscience. This is how it happens people. We're watching it happen.
Oh, just in case you're wondering... I got the link from Drudge.
-The Oklahoma Hippy
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