The only cyber terrorists are those working for revolving door DoD agencies/DoD

[Anti_Illuminati]

Here is the post...

http://www.thetruthseeker.co.uk/article.asp?ID=1051

Sleeper Agents Mobilizing for 9-11 Anniversary
Gordon Thomas - American Free Press

In an unprecedented move, Israel has secretly mobilized its estimated 15,000 sleeper agents – known as sayanim – across America. For the past month, in the utmost secrecy, they have been briefed by former Mossad operations director, Raphael (Rafi) Eitan, on how to update the defense systems of synagogues, Jewish religious schools, Jewish banks, and other Jewish-owned institutions.

Many of the sayanim – the name comes from the Hebrew "to help" – have received weapons training during their military service. Others have worked in U.S. military intelligence. A number are currently employed by police forces across the country.

"While their allegiance to their birth country cannot be doubted, each sayan recognizes a greater loyalty: the mystical one to Israel and a need to help protect it from its enemies," Meir Amit, a former Mossad chief, has said. He created the secret force of sayanim.

Known as Israel's "invisible army," all its members are vetted by professional Mossad intelligence officers, called katsas, before being recruited.

Sayanim reported that the FBI has identified 240 individuals living in the United States-mostly Saudis and Syrians-who are openly sympathetic to al Qaeda.

"We have no hard evidence they are involved in the preparation of an attack to mark the second anniversary of Sept. 11," an FBI source said. "Our policy is to keep close surveillance on them and move in at the first sign of an attack being planned."

This wait-and-see policy has angered Israel's Mossad, which insists an attack is being planned. Israeli intelligence had given a similar warning before Sept. 11, 2001, which was dismissed as being "too vague" by both the CIA and FBI.

To protect its massive multiple interests in the United States, Israel has decided to act alone. It will be seen by Homeland Security and the FBI as a vote of no confidence in their ability to protect Jewish interests.

The information of a possible attack came from two U.S.-based katsas (Mossad agents). Each made a similar report to Mossad chief, Meir Dagan. Both reports stated al Qaeda terrorists in Canada are preparing to launch an attack in the United States. No date or target was provided.

The decision to send Eitan – the Mossad spy chief who persuaded Jonathan Pollard to betray all of America's most important defense secrets to Israel – was made by Prime Minister Ariel Sharon.

Eitan is travelling on an Israeli diplomatic passport throughout the United States-and requests to question him about his activities have been rejected.

In order to avoid creating a political problem with Israel, FBI Director Robert Mueller is said to have been ordered by Attorney General John Ashcroft not to question Eitan.

A high-level administration source said: "In the end, we are both on the same side. We need to keep Sharon reading the road map to peace-even if it is in tatters right now."

On a recent fishing trip to Ireland, Mueller made plain his feelings along the banks of one of Ireland's finest salmon rivers. A source close to Mueller said: "Once more the Israelis are trying to run their own show. Eitan appears to have mobilized a private army within the United States which will ultimately only be answerable to Israel."

Another Promis

In a separate but related incident, another former Mossad agent, Juval Aviv, has claimed in an email that Eitan is using the latest version of Promis-the sophisticated software that can track terrorists-to help to train sayanim.

The software was originally stolen by Eitan from a specialist Washington computer company, Inslaw. Since then, Inslaw has developed several even more sophisticated versions of the program.

Details are a closely guarded secret at Inslaw's offices. But it is known that at least one major business corporation in Columbus, Ohio – where Eitan has set up base – uses a version of Promis.

In his email, sent at 9:19 a.m. on Aug. 22 to Inslaw boss, Bill Hamilton, Aviv-who is president of the New York-based Interfor, an international private security agency staffed with former intelligence officers-makes an astonishing claim:

The new version of Promis was tested in Ohio by you-know-who, and he caused the blackout last weekend.

It was a test that was not meant to cause that much devastating damage, but because their infrastructure is so old and vulnerable, it went down without being able to correct itself. That is how we got the blackout in 2003.

Mr. X is bragging about it and is quite impressed with Promis's new capabilities.

"You-know-who" and "Mr. X" refer to Eitan.

Attempts to contact Aviv to discuss his extraordinary claim have failed. Aviv refused to take calls at his New York offices from where he runs his worldwide operations.

Aviv has dual U.S.-Israeli citizenship and claims that, as well as working for Mossad, he also led an Israeli army elite commando/intelligence unit. He worked in Mossad at the same time Eitan was its director of operations.

Intelligence sources in Washington are puzzled why Aviv should have linked Eitan to the blackout. But the FBI is likely to question Aviv on his claims-unless they are once more warned off.

Meanwhile, Eitan's sayanim are fully mobilized.

In an interview, Meir Amit has said: "Sayanim fulfill many functions. A car sayan, running a rental agency, lets his handler know if any suspicious person has rented a car. A realtor sayan provides similar information on anyone seeking accommodations.

"Sayanim also collect technical data and all kinds of overt intelligence – a rumor at a cocktail party, an item on the radio, a paragraph in a newspaper, a story overheard at a dinner party. Without its sayanim Mossad could not operate," claimed Amit.

Between now and Sept. 11, Israel's secret army will be reporting to Eitan under the nose of the FBI agents who continue to monitor his activities-but can do nothing to learn more by questioning the spymaster. Perhaps they are depending on their outmoded version of the Promis software to provide the answers.
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The new version of Promis was tested in Ohio by you-know-who, and he caused the blackout last weekend.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2003_North_America_blackout#cite_note-7

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# Later that night, claims surfaced that the blackout may have started in Ohio up to one hour before the network shut down, a claim denied by Ohio's FirstEnergy utility.
# The president of the North American Electric Reliability Corporation said that the problem originated in Ohio.[8]



The Northeast Blackout of 2003 was a massive widespread power outage that occurred throughout parts of the Northeastern and Midwestern United States and Ontario, Canada on Thursday, August 14, 2003, at approximately 4:15 p.m. EDT (20:15 UTC). At the time, it was the most widespread electrical blackout in history.[1][2] The blackout affected an estimated 10 million people in Ontario and 45 million people in eight U.S. states.
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http://web.archive.org/web/20030818024445/http://www.nerc.com/pub_doc/media-statement-08-16-03.doc

NORTH AMERICAN ELECTRIC RELIABILITY COUNCIL
Princeton Forrestal Village, 116-390 Village Boulevard, Princeton, New Jersey 08540-5731

Statement of Michehl R. Gent
President and CEO

Good Afternoon.

Ladies and Gentlemen, I am pleased to tell you that we’re back.  As of 10 a.m. today, all electric systems affected by the disturbance in the Eastern Interconnection had returned virtually all customers to normal electric service, although some customers will continue to experience rotating outages due to limitations of generating availability.  Please understand that these rotating blackouts are not a failure of the system, but an indication that it is working properly.  This may be counterintuitive but it is how the system is designed to work, unlike what happened two days ago.  It is a way of sharing the shortage of generation among customers until enough generating capacity is available to serve everyone.

As we gear up for another workweek, the demand for electricity will increase and it may be necessary to again have rotating blackouts in Detroit and Ontario.  If we get the rest of the generation on line, even these may be avoided.  

I would like to commend the extraordinary work of DTE, the operating electric utility in the Detroit area, for bringing their system back on line so quickly.  I would also like to commend everyone else involved in this effort for the superhuman effort it took to bring this complicated system back on line.

NERC is now entering the investigation stage.  We released some preliminary data yesterday showing the sequence of events that we believed were germane to our focus at the time, which was to find out where this started and what was the cause.  I apologize for the cryptic nature of that data, but I thought you should be able to see what we were seeing and we will clarify it as soon as we are able to.  

We now are fairly certain this disturbance started in Ohio.  We are now trying to determine why this situation was not brought under control after the first three transmission lines relayed out of service.  We will get to the bottom of this.

We are also fairly confident that this event will not reoccur in the foreseeable future.  We believe this because system operators are and will be extremely vigilant to any sign of a disturbance or situations that could lead to such a disturbance, and will take all necessary action to prevent such a situation from reoccurring.  We also expect the system to be operating in a very conservative manner until we get to the bottom of what happened.  

We are now turning our attention to collecting the necessary data on the events from all of the system operators that were involved in the blackout.  There were probably over 10,000 discrete system events that we will need to examine.  These logs will come from energy management systems (EMS) of system operators throughout the affected area.  The EMS were operating at maximum capability during the events.  It will take awhile to retrieve the data and even longer to analyze it.

I would like to tell you that I very much appreciate the media’s patience and attention to detail, and we are doing everything we can to respond to your urgent need for information.  I encourage you to keep digging, as we have found the information you are uncovering to be very useful to our investigation.  Many of the reports we’ve seen are on target, and even when they are not on target, our investigations of your reports prove to be helpful as well.

NERC is conducting a thorough investigation into this event in conjunction with the regional reliability councils and their member utilities, and in coordination with federal, state, and provincial agencies.  This investigation will be open, accurate, and timely. We will publicly report our findings as soon as possible.  Please understand that we need to collect a great deal of additional data and information before we are able to draw definitive conclusions about the root causes of this outage.

In the days ahead, we expect to have Congress, the states and provinces, and many federal agencies conduct their own investigations.  We understand and respect that.  We invite all these others to join us.  We will keep everyone informed as our investigation proceeds.

Thank you very much for your time and thank you for listening.
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http://www.nerc.com/filez/blackout.html

DOES THIS FIT INTO A PROBLEM REACTION SOLUTION SCENARIO?  YOU TELL ME, LOOK AT THE SOLUTION, FROM 2005.

NERC report to the US-Canada Power System Outage Task Force on the status of the August 2003 Blackout Recommendations

http://www.nerc.com/docs/docs/blackout/Report_to_US-Can_TF_on_Status_of_Blackout_Recommendations-071405.pdf





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I know what you are thinking:  where is your evidence that Juval Aviv was Israeli MOSSAD, and that he was aware of PROMIS, and that the MOSSAD had PROMIS?

TRANSCRIBED FROM SCANNED DOCUMENT BELOW:  

Juval Aviv:  Mr. Juval Aviv stated to the committee that he is a former member of the Israeli Mossad who currently serves as president and chief executive officer of Interfor, Inc., a private investigative firm specializing in international investigations. In January 1991, Mr. Aviv told committee investigators that he could provide information that Dr. Brian sold INSLAW's Enhanced PROMIS software to U.S. Government agencies outside the Department, including the CIA, National Security Agency, National Aeronuatics and Space Administration, and the National Security Council.  Mr, Aviv also stated that Dr. Brian sold the PROMIS software to Interpol in France, the Israeli Mossad, the Israeli Air Force, and the Egyptian Government.

http://www.michaelriconosciuto.com/promis/





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Now, if that isn't enough, look at this:

http://rense.com/general54/powetf.htm

Logan Power Failure
Not Explained -
Back-Ups Failed, Too
©2004 WorldNetDaily.com
7-11-4

A mysterious power failure at Logan Airport that delayed dozens of flights for more than five hours has still not been explained - six days later.
 
Airport officials insist airline security was not compromised during the blackout Monday at Logan International's Terminal E, but backup electrical systems failed to kick in as they are programmed under such circumstances.
 
Logan is the airport from which two of the Sept. 11 hijacked planes originated. Officials promised a full report on the blackout Wednesday. It has still not been issued. "We're trying to figure out exactly what happened and why it happened," said Phil Orlandella, Massport spokesman, last week.
 
The power outage was caused by an explosion at Massport's Porter Street electric substation in East Boston around 2:15 p.m. Monday, officials said. The blast shut down the terminal's security screening systems and other equipment. Power was restored around 7:10 p.m.
 
During the outage, federal security screeners had to search luggage and passengers by hand while canine screeners were brought in to sniff for explosives.
 
One terrorism specialist said yesterday the failure of the backup systems at Logan is a sign that federal security officials have not created a foolproof system.
 
"That [electrical] system should work, and that backup system should work," said Juval Aviv, president of Interfor, an international investigative and intelligence-gathering firm. Aviv also serves as a special consultant to the U.S. Congress on issues of terrorism.
 
"After 9/11, Homeland Security promised that those basic security systems are now under full control and will function," Aviv told the Boston Globe. "For the system to fail and for the backup at the same time, it's totally unprofessional."
 
© 2004 WorldNetDaily.com, Inc.
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=39379

The Smart Grid is *DUAL* Probem Reaction Solution implementation!

[SUPREMEMASTER]

...And I thought hitting a switch and suddenly shutting the entire Internet down was bad enough...

But that was in 2003...

Now they could probably hit a switch and shut the entire power grid of the country down -- the nation -- the continent....

[h4x]

Welp... I need to get a generator. It's pretty clear now that electronic infrastructure will be one of the targets in the next false flag. Thank you for this information AI. You're doing an awesome job and service to us all.

[tritonman]

Perhaps those solar panels for communications and emergency lighting need to be ordered sooner than I had planned also.

[EarthAngel_2012]

Perhaps those solar panels for communications and emergency lighting need to be ordered sooner than I had planned also.

China and Russia seem to trying the same thing.. they seem to have been caught penetrating through our power grid this year April 2009..seem were being targeted again..


http://www.thetrumpet.com/?q=6100.4493.0.0

[InfoTruth]

I remembered that blackout when it happened in NYC. It just scares me what they have in plan for us.

[InfoTruth]

...And I thought hitting a switch and suddenly shutting the entire Internet down was bad enough...

But that was in 2003...

Now they could probably hit a switch and shut the entire power grid of the country down -- the nation -- the continent....

And declare martial law. Imagine a blackout and the swine flu pandemic at the same time.

[SUPREMEMASTER]

And declare martial law. Imagine a blackout and the swine flu pandemic at the same time.

--Mind blowing...

I mean them DELIBERATELY and PURPOSELY causing the power grid to shut down -- and then coming up with the solution of martial law to "help" with the problem that THEY started...

False flag terrorism just got a hell of a lot easier.

[Mike Philbin]

Here in UK, one wonders if these guys aren't gonna be set up if/when they storm the power station, causing a POWER OUTAGE (ahum).

Activists will target power station
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/21/20090831/tuk-activists-will-target-power-station-6323e80.html

Environmental activists are planning a "mass invasion" of a power station following a vote by thousands of people attending the climate camp.

The decision to name e.on's Ratcliffe-on-Soar plant in Nottinghamshire for the protest in October follows a debate at the camp to determine which site should be targeted next for direct action.

The activists described the coal-fired plant as Britain's third most polluting power station.

The camp, which has been set up on Blackheath in London, held the online poll over recent weeks, attracting more than 2,000 votes, with Ratcliffe coming ahead of other suggestions including the Drax power station in Yorkshire. Groups are now planning to descend on the power station on October 17 and 18 by land, water and air, and say they will shut it down.

Earlier this year, 114 people were arrested for conspiracy to commit aggravated trespass at the power station. No charges have been brought in connection with incident.

Activists said the success of last week's "swoop" on the Blackheath site for the week-long camp is being seen as a model for the October invasion.

"Under the noses of police officers deployed across London who were determined to learn the location of the camp before Wednesday, activists used sophisticated communication techniques to outwit the Met (police) and set up the camp.

"Now those skills will be used to enter the Ratcliffe site and stop emissions from the site's 200 metre-high chimney," said a statement.

"This week's climate camp has seen hundreds of people who've never before taken direct action undergoing training and committing to taking part in the October invasion.

"They will be joined by thousands of other campers and by members of Plane Stupid, Climate Rush and Rising Tide who have shut down airports, business conferences and power stations and gained access to protected sites like the roof of Parliament."

[NMTO]

I've heard others say there won't be power, etc. during an emergency.  I never believed they would actually shut off the power but you have convinced me that it is in the works and has been tested.  I've noticed a lot of upgrading going on at substations, etc.

[SUPREMEMASTER]

I've heard others say there won't be power, etc. during an emergency.  I never believed they would actually shut off the power but you have convinced me that it is in the works and has been tested.  I've noticed a lot of upgrading going on at substations, etc.

So-called "upgrading"?

[Okinawa]

MOSSAD...

Do they work for the NWO for the purpose of crisis creation?

Is seems their sleeper-cell networks within telecommunications, educational institutions, finance, government, etc., are more than capable of doing anything at anytime.

It's likely that they are working for and with all governments that are participants of UN, UNESCO, NATO, and the many other friendly organizations.

Does anyone have a list Mossad of tricks and protocols?

[jofortruth]

More on the Blackout:
http://z4.invisionfree.com/The_Great_Deception/index.php?showtopic=7007

[Satyagraha]

Logan Power Failure
Not Explained -
Back-Ups Failed, Too
©2004 WorldNetDaily.com
7-11-4[/center]
 
Airport officials insist airline security was not compromised during the blackout Monday at Logan International's Terminal E, but backup electrical systems failed to kick in as they are programmed under such circumstances.
 
...

During the outage, federal security screeners had to search luggage and passengers by hand while canine screeners were brought in to sniff for explosives.
 

There are 5 main terminals at Logan - only one of them, Terminal E, handles international flights. So that's where security is needed more than any other terminal, and they're able to shut it down with ease.  I wonder who/what was travelling through terminal E at that time.

[jofortruth]

More on PROMIS and Inslaw:
http://z4.invisionfree.com/The_Great_Deception/index.php?showtopic=2362&st=0&#last

[Shadowsenshi]

Meanwhile in Canada interestingly in the Ontario Valley area (Deep River, Chalk River, Pembroke, Petawawa" did not suffer the outage like the rest of the province.

seeing that its more accurately
Canadian Force's Base CFB Petawawa
And Chalk River is the Location of Atomic Energy Canada Limited (AECL)
I shouldn't be so surprised.

My source? I live there

[jofortruth]

Meanwhile in Canada interestingly in the Ontario Valley area (Deep River, Chalk River, Pembroke, Petawawa" did not suffer the outage like the rest of the province.

seeing that its more accurately
Canadian Force's Base CFB Petawawa
And Chalk River is the Location of Atomic Energy Canada Limited (AECL)
I shouldn't be so surprised.

My source? I live there

Very interesting! Were there any articles in paper about this locally?

[jofortruth]

EYE FOR AN EYE . . . Steven Spielberg's new film tells the story of Rafi Eitan
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4156/is_20060115/ai_n15999662/

Bio:
http://www.mfa.gov.il/MFA/Government/Personalities/From+A-Z/Rafi+Eitan.htm

[ChristSavage]

I don't know if Mike Rivero reads this forum or not, but if he comes across this thread / information (and I'm sure he will eventually)...

This is very important and hopefully Alex will mention this over the airwaves today / whenever the heck he's due back. 

Just imagine if things DID go as they planned that fateful day in '03 with no flaws.  Who knows where we'd be...

This deserves a perma sticky, at least for the time being here in GD. 

[OG]

Do Israel work for the NWO or is Israel the NWO. A question often avoided, but one I'd like the answer to given the amount of fingers in pies.

[jofortruth]

Do Israel work for the NWO or is Israel the NWO. A question often avoided, but one I'd like the answer to given the amount of fingers in pies.

Debate & Prophecy: The New World Order:
http://www.israeltoday.co.il/default.aspx?tabid=135&view=item&idx=454

Tuesday, June 21, 2005  

After World War I, the League of Nations was formed to ensure that another 10 million people would not die in another global conflict. But the League of Nations was powerless to prevent World War II, which cost 55 million lives. In its wake, the United Nations was created, but it has also failed to prevent the numerous wars taking place throughout the world.

And World War III, the international terror war, has no borders whatsoever. So the world is calling for a new League of Nations to prevent mass destruction.

To do its job, this new League of Nations must form a world government, a worldwide currency and an ecumenical world religion. Only this “trinity” will make it possible to rule over the chaos raging among the nations. Everyone outside this New World Order will possess no rights whatsoever. A mere 50 years ago, such a concept would have been labeled apocalyptic, and only Bible scholars would have taken notice.  

[mr anderson]

Great post AI!


Mass power outages cause chaos in Victoria
January 31, 2009

http://www.theage.com.au/national/mass-power-outages-cause-chaos-in-victoria-20090131-7u7g.html

Excerpt:

Energy and Resources Minister Peter Batchelor said the state government had decided against invoking emergency powers restricting electricity use after it met to discuss the crisis.

"We were actively considering that but due to the good work of the power workers we have full restoration to all those affected by this infrastructure failure," he told AAP on Saturday morning.

Invoking those powers would have meant mandatory restrictions on power use by households with fines and other penalties for breaches.

"Victoria is still in a very tight power transmission situation; we believe we will get through it as long as we do not have another catastrophic infrastructure incident," he said.

[Dig]

Do Israel work for the NWO or is Israel the NWO. A question often avoided, but one I'd like the answer to given the amount of fingers in pies.

Israel is a wholly owned subsidiary of the East India Trading Company, a British Empire building invention.  The British Empire worked with Herzl, Ben Gurian, and Nazis to form Israel. The British Empire also created Wahabis and the Muslim Brotherhood who control 90% of the Middle East. These two groups, hardcore zionists and hard core wahabis, are the left/right of the middle east.  The same is done all over the world by the British Empire (also Dutch Empire) and her social architects at Tavistock.

Bilderberg runs the show and was founded by Queen Beatrix.

[mr anderson]

Israel is a wholly owned subsidiary of the East India Trading Company, a British Empire building invention.  The British Empire worked with Herzl, Ben Gurian, and Nazis to form Israel. The British Empire also created Wahabis and the Muslim Brotherhood who control 90% of the Middle East. These two groups, hardcore zionists and hard core wahabis, are the left/right of the middle east.  The same is done all over the world by the British Empire (also Dutch Empire) and her social architects at Tavistock.

Bilderberg runs the show and was founded by Queen Beatrix.

Queen Sofia of Spain recently visited Australia -     

[JConner]

Why is this somehow 'stunning'? The fact that the PTB can shut off the power?

Folks, if you aren't prepared for grid-down survival then you are REALLY REALLY behind the curve.

[Dig]

MOSSAD...

Do they work for the NWO for the purpose of crisis creation?

Is seems their sleeper-cell networks within telecommunications, educational institutions, finance, government, etc., are more than capable of doing anything at anytime.

It's likely that they are working for and with all governments that are participants of UN, UNESCO, NATO, and the many other friendly organizations.

Does anyone have a list Mossad of tricks and protocols?

Mossad/MI6/SAS/CIA all work together for the G7 bankers.  They have been working together since at least the 1980's when VP George Bush gave the entire CIA over to the international bankers, drug runners, child slave traders. This is when the CIA ceased to be an American organization and became an NWO organization (actually it can be argued that this happened upon its inception when Nazi General Geylen was paperclipped to the US to run the CIA, or when the CIA helped Bush/Rockefeller/Harriman blow JFK's brains out in 1963).

Listen to Chip Tatum explain:

'Presidential Secrets'--Former CIA Operative Chip Tatum Speaks
83 min - Dec 20, 2007 -   
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4217457994226676654

What people should also understand is that just like the CIA, Mossad and Shin Bet were created by British Intelligence and Nazi Intelligence.  So were the nuclear, biological, and chemical  weapons operations.  These were paperclipped scientists and doctors.  The reason that zionist Israel looks so similar to Nazi Germany is because the same people were involved with the creation of both socialist entities. Hence the term zionazi.

[jofortruth]

List of Power Outages:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_power_outages

[Freeski]

Bump

[Mike Philbin]

I want this all to be true so I can get on with EDUCATING my readers to the tyranny they've been under Rothschild used his secret intelligence network to his financial advantage re: Waterloo, Battle of.

How certain are you of your sources. And I'm serious. People should know. I didn't. Others don't. Even out the playing field, what what.

Mossad/MI6/SAS/CIA all work together for the G7 bankers.  They have been working together since at least the 1980's when VP George Bush gave the entire CIA over to the international bankers, drug runners, child slave traders. This is when the CIA ceased to be an American organization and became an NWO organization (actually it can be argued that this happened upon its inception when Nazi General Geylen was paperclipped to the US to run the CIA, or when the CIA helped Bush/Rockefeller/Harriman blow JFK's brains out in 1963).

What people should also understand is that just like the CIA, Mossad and Shin Bet were created by British Intelligence and Nazi Intelligence.  So were the nuclear, biological, and chemical  weapons operations.  These were paperclipped scientists and doctors.  The reason that zionist Israel looks so similar to Nazi Germany is because the same people were involved with the creation of both socialist entities. Hence the term zionazi.

[Anti_Illuminati]

Why is this somehow 'stunning'? The fact that the PTB can shut off the power?

Folks, if you aren't prepared for grid-down survival then you are REALLY REALLY behind the curve.

I really cannot believe I am seeing what you typed.

Do you think that the workers at the power station grids would just turn off the power?  You obviously have no idea as to the NWO's complexity of operations, nor their deeply rooted problem reaction solution/Hegelian dialectic/chaos theory methodologies.

It PROVES and reinforces ALL of the research I have done pertaining to this topic on this forum since March.

It PROVES their motives, it exposes their agenda to an unprecedented level.

The statement about "TPTB" can do this is intellectually bankrupt.  THE PEOPLE WHO WORK IN THE INDUSTRY WILL NEVER UNDERSTAND WTF HAPPENED, NEITHER WILL THE PUBLIC, AND THE PUBLIC, WITH EVERYTHING ELSE GOING ON, I.E. ECONOMY, WILL SURRENDER TO THE GOVT. BECAUSE THEY WILL BE STARVING TO DEATH AND TRAPPED BECAUSE THERE WILL BE NO POWER, SO THEY WILL GO TO THE CAMPS WILLINGLY FROM AN EVENT LIKE THIS ALONE, AND THEY WILL BE CONVINCED THAT THE GOVERNMENT IS ACTUALLY THERE TO HELP THEM, UNTIL THEY GET TO THE CAMPS.

This PROVES why the whole thing surrounding PROMIS/Ptech was and is so heavily guarded.  IT IS THE KEY TO ALL OF THEIR MODERN FALSE FLAG TERRORISM, WITHOUT THIS TECHNOLOGY, THEY WOULD NOT BE ABLE TO DESTROY THE UNITED STATES, PERIOD.  THEY WOULD NOT HAVE BEEN ABLE TO CARRY OUT 911 WITHOUT THIS.

This gives them the PERFECT Probelm Reaction Solution TRUMP CARD, but now, assuming what happens to this info presented, their trump card may have a problem.

I hope I never see something as unlearned and irresponsible of a statement as you have made again, because quite honestly, you offend me with such ignorance, and reckless downplaying of the significance of backdoored PROMIS/Ptech/Agile Software/Enterprise Architecture.  MAYBE YOU NEED TO BE REMINDED THAT ONE OF OUR FORUM MEMBERS DAD'S HERE WAS MURDERED OVER THE PROMIS INVESTIGATION, A MURDER CASE THAT IS STILL PENDING.

[adissenter2]

MAYBE YOU NEED TO BE REMINDED THAT ONE OF OUR FORUM MEMBERS DAD'S HERE WAS MURDERED OVER THE PROMIS INVESTIGATION, A MURDER CASE THAT IS STILL PENDING.

and you think the courts are going to expose this?

like I said before, disclose fully now! let the info go viral!  let the people be the judge and jury before the communications shut down!

WE NEED TO KNOW!

examples to ponder
'Mena Connection'
'the DC Madam'
'Boystown'
and on and on and on an on ..

they would cover up most of anything and have, they could whitewash a coal mine and the masses would believe that carbon was white and healthy to eat as a breakfast cereal

[Anti_Illuminati]

I want this all to be true so I can get on with EDUCATING my readers to the tyranny they've been under Rothschild used his secret intelligence network to his financial advantage re: Waterloo, Battle of.

How certain are you of your sources. And I'm serious. People should know. I didn't. Others don't. Even out the playing field, what what.

It is not absolute proof, (or even "proof per se-that PROMIS was in FACT actually used.  Obviously their is NO WAY to prove that directly.  But the man mentioned is for real, the company he is involved with and his credentials are multi-sourced from completely disparate sources of intelligence) it is anecdotal collaborative evidence, including reverse engineered evidence from the present--reverse engineering today's hardcore push for solutions paralleling yet greatly expanding on the scanned Cyber security power grid document from 2005.

Again, look at what LS had to say about this from an older thread:

http://forum.prisonplanet.com/index.php?topic=99369.msg598731#msg598731

Translation the ancient pre PROMIS  grid is too hard to control even with the MICs provided for by way of your friendly digital power meter.

So, now we need a grid based on Agile technologies (PROMIS's grandchild) we can selectively control so that we can wage false flag terror on sections of the grid rather than  having to expose the entire grid and thereby exposing ourselves as the real culprits of  of this power outage terror to come.

Basically they want to be able to with the push of a button - shut off this nice X block section of X community in X state  at any time they like so that they can conveniently blame it on home grown terrorists. This goes hand in hand of  why the need internet 2 up so they can say what they want and wage false flag teror on both the grid and the internet without  us being able to expose them....

[INSERT:  THEY COULD ALSO SELECTIVELY SHUT DOWN SECTIONS IN AN ORDERLY FASHION TO FACILITATE AN EFFECTIVE MARTIAL LAW TAKEOVER OF PIECES OF THE U.S. AT A TIME INSTEAD OF GOING FOR THE ENTIRE COUNTRY AT ONCE, WHICH IMO WOULD BE TOTALLY IMPOSSIBLE.  I WANT TO ALSO ADD, THAT IT IS NOT EVEN NECESSARY FOR THEM TO KILL THE POWER ITSELF, THEY COULD JUST KILL THE COMMUNICATIONS INFRASTRUCTURE, GREATLY LIMITING MASS RESISTANCE AND ORGANIZATIONAL CAPABILITY IN THE EVENT OF DEATH SQUAD MERCENRAIES/UN DEPLOYMENT OF ASSASSINATION BRIGADES.

REMEMBER FOX NEWS A FEW MONTHS AGO HAD SOME BS PSYOPS SAYING "RUSSIANS/CHINESE HAVE BEEN DETECTED IN OUR POWER GRID SYSTEMS "WE KNOW THEY'RE THEY'RE, BUT THEY HAVEN;T DONE ANYTHING YET".  WHAT THE F*CK KIND OF OMINOUS, DISGUSTING PSYOPS STATEMENT IS THAT?  SO MUCH FOR REAL NATIONAL SECURITY HUH?  TELLING THE SHEEP ON TV THAT THERE'S THE NEW AL-QAEDA WAITING TO HIT THE POWER GRID, AND THAT WERE SUPPOSEDLY INCAPABLE OF DOING ANYTHING ABOUT IT--INSINUATING THAT "HEY WE CAN'T GET THESE DAMN RUSSIANS AND/OR CHINESE OUT FROM SNOOPING AROUND IN OUR SYSTEMS UNTIL WE GET INTERNET 2 AND/OR THE SMART GRID IMPLEMENTED!!"]

Now, if 300 million people in the U.S. have your understanding, the NWO would be completely finished, they would be forced to using total violence against us.  Now as bad as that would be, we have no choice, THAT is the position that we want to force themselves into, because it is the ONLY position that can ultimately result in victory.  To do otherwise is the same thing as saying "Please RAPE ME GENTLY."  How about "F**K YOU, I'M NOT ALLOWING YOU TO RAPE ME, PERIOD."   You are 100% correct in your understanding LS.
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http://www.energypulse.net/centers/article/article_display.cfm?a_id=1748

A Useful Thing Happened on the Way to the Smart Grid: the Agile Grid
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This article is so incredibly revealing and damning that I could highlight probably 30%+ of it in red.  I'm not going to bother doing that now, save for the last paragraph.  Welcome to the new permanent Al-Qaeda, living and feeding off of the permanent 9/11 lie.  Now you see why they have gone to any lengths shutting down the facts about 9/11?  Because if the real facts of it get out into the public, then it shuts down their subsequent plans for enslavement, it destroys the legitimacy of the "Smart Grid", the GIG, Internet2, IPV6, everything.  THAT IS WHY THIS MUST BE EXPOSED, IMMEDIATELY.

http://www.energypulse.net/centers/article/article_display.cfm?a_id=31

ThreatSim:  Securing Wattage When It’s Needed
10.14.02 Roger Anderson, Director, Energy Research, Columbia University Albert Boulanger, Senior Staff Associate, LDEO, Columbia Univ.

The terrorist events of 9/11, when combined with the power shortages we are all experiencing across the country this summer, suggest that we as a country are not well prepared to meet what is sure to be a growing threat to our ability to deliver electricity where its needed, when it is needed, in the future. Our Power Infrastructure, in particular, delivers the electricity that our entire economy depends upon.

Take out the grid for more than about 12 hours (the operational maximum of most back-up power generation systems) and you shut down the internet, stop all bank transfers, credit card and cash machine transactions, pumps and compressors needed to transport drinking water, fill your car or truck up with gasoline and diesel, deliver natural gas through pipelines and storage facilities no longer work, and stop lights and other key components of the transportation system like railroad and subway power and signaling fail. Most manufacturing comes to a standstill (c.f. NY Times, July 21, 2002 and Figure 1). About the only thing that will continue to work is the landline phone system: the microwave network supporting cell phones will also be shut down.



Figure 1. Thermal image of power consumption in New York City, which this summer is actually increasing, in spite of 9/11. New York City saw an immediate 140 megawatt (MW) drop in electricity demand and a total net reduction of 90 MW with the destruction of the World Trade Center, but that was only about 20 percent of what was predicted in some early reports (Power Alert II: New York's Persisting Energy Crisis, New York Independent System Operator, March, 2002). Is it realistic to think that a coordinated attack on the national power grid could succeed in shutting down electricity across the country for a substantial time?

We believe the threat is real, and that training in response and prevention should be a highest priority of the new Homeland Defense Department. What does it take to build an accurate Electric Grid Threat Simulator? First and foremost, the topologies of the regional high voltage grids managed by Regional Transmission Operators (RTO’s) and Independent System Operators (ISO’s) must be combined on the computer with local power grids, and more generally, distribution networks managed by utilities such as ConEd in New York City, Keyspan on Long Island, PSE&G in New Jersey, and hundreds of other public and private generation and distribution companies across the country (Figure 2).



Northeastern high voltage electric grid on left is connected to local low voltage grids through vulnerable switching and transformer sub-stations (triangles at right). An Electricity Threat Simulator

The burden of developing efficient electric grid threat simulators for war gaming must be shared by city, state and federal governments, the national labs, academia and electrical research institutions, but also by the power distribution, generation, and service companies themselves. It is they who will use the simulators to train their operators. Below we review the current state of affairs in Power Control Systems(PCS’s) in this country and discuss the need for anti-terrorist training and simulation software that will allow us to determine the true threats and appropriate responses to sustained, coordinated attacks on the electric grid.

Of particular concern are the PCS’s that control the production and distribution of electricity throughout the country. Below, we show that they will have to be very much more sophisticated and integrated than at present. It will take a whole new generation of technologies to unite the topologies of the electricity grid on its many scales. Luckily, much of this systems integration technology has been developed recently by the aerospace, automotive and manufacturing industries. The task at hand is its adoption by an electricity industry that is historically late adaptor of new technologies.

That, in turn, will require experts and expertise imported into a corporate and governmental regulatory culture bred out of the electrical utilities of our grandparents: one that is notorious for being insular and slow to respond to technological change (not late, but the very last technological adapters). 9/11 has emphasized the need to fix the Electric Grid Threat Simulation and modeling system before the next attack. With this need in mind, let’s review the present state-of-preparedness of Power Control Systems, and compare them to more modern, integrated command-and-control systems in the military and from other industries. We argue that there is little doubt that fixes must come quickly or our very economic stability may be at risk.



Figure 3. Seamless communications among Power Control Systems of the RTO, ISO and local utilities will be required to redistribute electricity in case of future terrorist attacks against the grid. Pictured here is the Connecticut Valley Electric Exchange. It’s computers do not communicate easily with those from the regional network managers.
 
Today’s Power Control System

Developing an adequate Electric Grid Threat Simulator to train operators of the multiple organizations required to respond to coordinated attacks is not a matter of simply joining the various computer systems that currently run the grids (c.f. Figure 3). As the Pentagon found in trying to integrate computer systems from the different armed forces, predictability declines as the integration tasks become more and more complex. Breakdowns occur that have not been foreseen from historical experiences with the smaller, more linear systems that in the past acted independently.

We participated in a detailed analyses of current and planned technical improvements in the transmission and generation Power Control System of a major regional electricity supplier considered to be a technological leader in the electricity industry. The grid under its management supplies a major urban area of the United States (not New York City) that includes more than 5000 square miles and several million people. This PCS is operated and supported 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, by approximately 100 conscientious and well trained people.

Its mission is to balance power loads among private consumers, businesses, and industrial users against the various generation resources available to it, both from internally owned generators and from external purchases available through company’s trading floor. The PCS in basic concept is really very simplistic. Since consumption is not known second-to-second (meters are not analyzed for consumption patterns, but are instead used only by the billing department), the computer merely balances the spin of power generator turbines under its control to keep the AC of the grid at as close to 60 Hz as possible.

Any less and the computer revs up the RPM’s of turbine generators; any more and the computer sells the excess power to the regional grid through itsbrokerage. Problems appear if the frequency of the AC in the transmission grid begins to drop below 59.99997 Hz (five nines) for computers, and below 59.997 (three nines) for electric motors, and then “all hell breaks lose” to quote an operator from the PCS. The inflow and outflow of electricity is monitored in real-time at all Interconnect sites and at critical junctions of the company’s own transmission lines.

The data are transmitted to the PCS every 2 seconds. Simultaneously, real-time costs are computed for all generators used to produce power for the company. A diverse mix of natural gas, coal, oil, steam and nuclear energy fuels these generators. Costs to produce power for all generators and fuel combinations are constantly compared with prices available from suppliers. The PCS automatically selects the cheapest alternative at any time for adding power to the grid.

In addition, the PCS manages a one-way, real-time Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) network that sends an additional 230,000 measurement inputs to the PCS every 30 seconds. For emergencies such as hurricanes and tornadoes, the PCS has computerized controls that extend directly into circuit breakers for computer banks and expensive electrical equipment of major business customers. The problem is that both the software and hardware of the PCS were designed (and often built) decades ago under the assumption that excess power would always be readily available from other utilities on the regional grids.

If the computer didn’t have enough generators to meet demand, it would purchase electricity from the regional grid at a fixed price. With de-regulation of the electricity industry, thousands of independent electricity producers are popping up all over the country to sell expensive power at times of high demand. In addition, choke points are popping up at critical and varying junctions of the electricity grid all over the nation.

Human-in-the-Loop

Most operator tasks are not automated within the PCS, but depend upon the experience and awareness of the people themselves. The operational processes of the staff are procedure-based and well-documented, but are available only in paper manuals. The company does not use new software capabilities available for automating alarms, work-tag tracking, and the opening and closing of circuit breakers remotely. No trend analyses or problem resolution is done computationally, nor is a data historian used (common practices in other industries).

The “technology cycle” for new computer software and hardware (still paired) has historically been 14-16 years, with the latest upgrade the most rapid in company’s history (1988 to 2000). We found the PCS operators “bracing for a long next few years” and the software vendor lamenting the “incredibly long sales cycle in the power industry.” Perhaps more critical in today’s world, while there is an excellent and well practiced plan for restoration of services from natural disaster outages (common), there is still nothing about terrorism (not yet anticipated when the procedures were last updated in 2000).

Training has become a special issue: the operational staff is “too busy”, and has erratically attended organization, and training sessions. The SCADA data that is used for training must be real-time, and cannot be replayed for instructional purposes. No case histories are used. There was no training simulator in this software update cycle, a casualty of budget cuts.

It is ironic that the cost to maintain an up-to-date simulator became too high because of the rapidly changing configuration and complexity of the national power grid, and particularly of the rapidly expanding power input into the company’s grid from independent power producers and customer co-generation facilities as the result of de-regulation. The major drivers to operational costs of the company are Operations and Maintenance (O&M) of its facilities. Overhauls of generators and reconfigurations and modernizations of its power grid must be scheduled well in advance and coordinated with other regional suppliers in order to be transparent to customers.

Software updates must be handled with particular care. The company upgraded the PCS computer systems in 2001 to a client-server, UNIX architecture, supported by an Oracle database, and modern graphical User Interfaces (GUI). However, the networkability of the system still leaves something to be desired. Its Ethernet is just now being upgraded to 100Mbps, and top management for security reasons forbids use of the Internet for communications with the field and its own SCADA systems.

The company Intranet is primitive at best, and no Microsoft products are found in the PCS at all (perhaps the last remaining industry for Bill Gates to conquer). Operators are NOT utilizing many of the new features of the PCS software system. For example, the 2001 software design supports interoperability between the two types of UNIX workstations: one to control interaction between the company and outside power suppliers, and one for control of internal company power distribution. In spite of this feature, operators of one system cannot call up or interact with the other.

Operators are trained to operate both systems, and they do rotate from one to the other on a regular schedule, but they are not allowed to let the computers communicate. Work orders to substations and power linesmen are created on a computer, printed out, and then FAXED to the field offices by the PCS operators. These work orders are not tracked further by the PCS, although it has the capability to manage electronic work orders and automatically send e-mails.

Use of a Threat Simulator in the PCS?

Optimization within the PCS is a manual process executed by experienced personnel without much computer help. In our Case Study, expert systems and Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies for the complex scheduling required for power management “were looked at years ago by IBM. They tried to develop a prototype system. However, IBM declared their process to be too complex, and moved on to easier markets.” This analysis was done in 1985, and the power company still considers it valid. IBM’s opinion is that they tried to develop a prototype of too much of the operations at once, back then.

New neural network and data mining technologies should make this a “very doable task in today’s computational world” according to IBM. It is ironic that the added complexity of the system made the keeping of an accurate computer simulator expendable. That would be like an aerospace company saying that its new planes are too complex to create a training environment for pilots -- other than flying the machine itself.

A Coordinated Terrorist Attack on the Power Grid

A new generation of American engineers and managers must be trained in electricity production and distribution under threat from terrorism. An Electric Grid Threat Simulator for the PCS is required that will train in the complexities introduced by terrorism, combined with the coincident convergence of supply and demand across the electricity grid of North America. Such threats, if geographically distributed, coordinated, and sustained over a period of time, will drive the electricity grid to more and more non-linearity, causing breakdowns that have not been foreseen from previous experiences with the more linear systems of today.

A future workforce must be trained to cope with this uncertain future. Automated variance detection, combined with “make-it-so” problems-to-solutions mappings, is a non-linear inverse problem that requires a simulator to teach operators how to solve. The integration of technologies required for this cross-system optimization problem will require an unprecedented degree of interdisciplinary collaboration among the various operators of the topology of the grid, from local to regional and national and international, in and of itself.

In a grid model with hundreds of thousands of failure points, training becomes problematic without proper computer simulators. The Electric Grid Threat Simulator must not be too general. It must focus on critical failures that have specific remedies. The chaining of these events is where the simulator becomes powerful. Each element of a transfer function that covers both the regional, national, and local grid topologies can then be transformed into responses. Closure can then be computed. Global behavior is then determined from the synthesis of the component models.

Put directly, what are the threats, and what are the failure points. These must be determined through what we call a “Learning Harness” wrapped over the topological models of the various scales of the grid. Consider a coordinated attack on the local components of the power grid. In order, they attack the microwave communications of SCADA data, then a power generator and a transformer substation, all within several minutes of each other. The cascading failures result in escalating problems throughout the local grid that don’t at first affect the national high voltage grid (c.f., Peerenboom, 2001).

Suppose now, however, that this attack is followed a few minutes later by a coordinated attack on the high voltage regional transmission grid. The first hit causes problems in Maine (Figure 4). Then a minute later, Buffalo is hit, where most spare generators are. Within 3 minutes, problems have spread throughout the northeastern United States if remedial action to deliver missing power and reroute electricity is not activated on a massive scale – and within about 5 minutes. The question is: what system do we use to train for such scenarios?



Figure 4. Simulated terrorist attack on the Northeastern Power Grid. Note how quickly the problem spreads from Maine to Buffalo, then to the entire Northeast. (Yellow and Red are areas with inadequate power to keep the lights on, obviously bad for all electrical machinery and computers. Simulations from PowerWorld.com).

Design of a Electric Grid Threat Simulator

In general, few PCS simulation environments exist to train new engineers and managers about how to respond to crisis scenarios of any kind. The case study revealed that fault detection and tracking of what has failed, where, and when, remains dependent upon operator experience and “instinct”. We hope that the incentive for change got a significant boost on 9/11. No question the PCS can be better supported by computer intelligence in the form of a Electric Grid Threat Simulator for War Gaming.

As we said, we believe a Learning Harness is required in order to build such an Electric Grid Threat Simulation environment. The Learning Harness represents first a fundamental mapping of the business, security, environmental, and engineering processes and activities required to maintain and operate the grid under attack, and then a reinforcement learning feedback loop to optimize decisions across systems (Figure 5). This explicitly requires a concerted, confidential, unprecedented collaboration of all involved parties.

These processes must be known in enough detail to develop computerized variance detection and contribute weights to the “credit assignment” problem of what to do to anticipate and fix the problems caused by terrorists. Known solutions to problems are kept in a best practices data historian. The system must learn from mistakes by tracking performance metrics of previous actions in much the manner of a chess, backgammon or checkers program. A key technology we use is the Suitability Matrix(sm).

This is a linked set of matrix representations (a set of spread sheets) that use generalized weights as the values of the cells. It maps import of an attribute (a problem) to possible decisions (a solution). These matrices are "populated" using reinforcement learning, a type of dynamic programming, which optimizes decision-making under uncertainty and time (4D learning). Data gathering for such a system will provide the following:

    * Eliminate the "wish I could have seen it coming" through multiple scenario planning
    * Estimate risk on all decisions
    * Identify solutions quickly
    * Eliminate latency in getting the right actions to the right people
    * Verify that actions are being executed properly in the field



Figure 5. The Electric Grid Threat Simulator must connect software applications that constantly re-compute each bullet indicated above – this framework has already been enacted for the Oil, Internet, and Aerospace industries (Bertsekas and Tsitsiklis, 1995). The key foundation to our Threat Simulator is an adaptive feedback control system, which involves the solving of implicit and explicit inverse algorithms in a controller to minimize error and arrive at an optimal solution (Bertsekas and Tsitsiklis, 1996.).

We adopt a mixture of AI, operations research, and systems engineering to build our controller. AI works well with discrete, richly structured, and nonlinear problems and control theory offers an overall framework for solving the linear and nonlinear components of the system-wide problem (Werbos, 1999, 2001). Certainty factors or probabilities to represent ranking of alternatives can be adapted by the Electric Grid Threat Simulator learning system over time (e.g. Neuneier, 1995, Werbos, 1998, 1999).

This online learning is key to a successful Electric Grid Threat Simulator. In sum, our Threat Simulator implements a unified framework for generating corrective actions that individuals and automated systems in the organization must take to align the business to reality in the face of multiple threats. The Learning harness uses metrics to gauge feedback and train for best responses. It uses a discrete forward model to compute event propagation. This is the same problem encountered by the Internet, and there are management programs that do just that to reroute message traffic in case of a failure in a router or a series of routers, automatically.

The use of Codebooks within Internet fault detection software (Yemini et al, 1996, 1997, 2001) is a good example (see www.smarts.com). Causal analysis determines how each problem propagates through the topology, then “cost-to-go” simulation within a reinforcement-learning framework is used to determine automatic corrective actions Update the learning harness several times with varying simulated disasters, and it learns the correct responses. Priorities in response are then developed by the system depending upon a damage metric (Anderson et al, 1996, 1998a,b,c, 1999, 2000, 2001a,b, 2002).

Summary

The electrical grid of North America is under significant threat, and as a fundamental underpinning of the global sustainability of our economic system, we must take remedial action to save it. Grand Challenge change is required, not incremental tuning. As a first step, a Electric Grid Threat Simulator is needed immediately to train a new generation of energy professional in ways to cope with the radical new world they face in the electricity workplace under threat.

Gone are the days when Americans took vital services like electricity, computer networks, and safe drinking water for granted. We must be diligent against this new terrorist threat or our infrastructure will come tumbling down, and along with it, our American way of life.

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[Anti_Illuminati]

John Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab is involved w/false flags
http://forum.prisonplanet.com/index.php?topic=98150.msg579930#msg579930

What the f**k?  Did the NWO write up a blueprint follow up to the Report From Iron Mountain?:

Excerpt:  http://ringtone-juke-box.fpri.org/footnotes/111.200603.kuehner.teaching911.html

Technology and Terrorism

FPRI senior fellow Lawrence Husick discussed technology, the defining characteristic of modern terrorists. By the late 20th century, technology had leveled the playing field between individuals and small groups and the worlds most powerful nations. It’s not just the technology of WMD but of everyday things: as 9/11 proved, it permitted 19 young men to turn airplanes into cruise missiles. Terrorism is about leverage, being able to exert an out-scale force through the use of a long enough lever arm and strong enough fulcrum. It’s a tool of the smart.

The military calls terrorism warfare between unmatched adversaries. Aymmetric warfare tactics are used by more than just Al Qaeda: the recent book, Unrestricted Warfare: China’s Master Plan to Destroy America (Pan American, 2002), by two colonels in China’s PLA, is the best outline of it yet.

As 9/11 demonstrated, the old-style mutual assured destruction doesn’t work. This war involves what could be called MUD: Multilateral, Unconstrained Disruption. The adversary’s goal is to sufficiently disrupt the U.S. so that it will withdraw from the world. Toward this end, bin Laden has urged more attacks on the joints of the economy: things that are important in a way the Liberty Bell, the value of which is symbolic, is not.

Today’s societal commons include the Internet, the electric power grid, rail systems, and air-traffic control systems, which no one is responsible to protect. In The World is Flat (2005), Friedman notes that in the globalized world there is no way to disentangle ourselves from the rest of the world. Even were we to reduce our reliance on Middle Eastern oil, our trading partners in the Far East such as Japan could never do so. Therefore, we need to protect things outside our own borders and alliances. We can’t return to 9/10, and we were vulnerable even then. Our goal can only be security, not immunity.
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"In fact, the ultimate objective of the network centric warfare described by VADM Cebrowski is not to wear down the enemy's physical ability to make war at all, but to instill a sense of "shock and awe" that will create a "self-fulfilling prophecy" of defeat."
-Dr. Edward A. Smith, Jr.

In and of itself, technology is use-neutral. But students can think about how a given technology can be used, offensively and defensively, and the vulnerabilities it creates. Video has long been used as tool for communication; Mr. Husick offered the example of the Civil Defense Administration’s 1951 Bert the Turtle film (see www.conelrad.com), which taught children how to duck and cover to survive nuclear attack. But video can also be exploited as it was by Leni Riefenstahl’s films for Adolf Hitler. The Internet is essential to students, but can also be used for stegonography, hidden writing in Internet graphics. The Internet was designed by our military as network that could sustain damage from nuclear attack by Russians and still keep working; today, shutting down one Islamist website has no effect, when the world-wide web represents less than 1 percent of the material flowing through the Internet.

In the U.S., cell phones represent convenience and safety. Elsewhere, with landlines lacking, the hard-to-trace cell phone is the norm. Meanwhile, prepaid cards and disposable numbers permit anonymity and can even be used as remote trigger devices for bombs.

Enterprise software programs now run huge swaths of economy: more than 85 percent of Fortune 2000 companies run SAP R3, designed by a German company. The program runs everything in the company: personnel, ordering, manufacturing, accounts receivable and payable, and as such leaves us highly vulnerable. Mr. Husick urged having students look at any technology this way to recognize the risks it poses.
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JHUAPL = Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory

http://www.jhuapl.edu/colloquium/topics/rickards.html

Theory and Practice of the New Science of Market Intelligence

Market prices are more than single data points. They are the Σ of n intentions, preferences and decisions of innumerable market participants. Markets efficiently aggregate this data, however, recent advances in computing power and analytical techniques have allowed market prices to be disaggregated in order to draw reasonable inferences about the presence and actions of market participants including those initially unknown to the observer. These techniques include comparison of apparent price anomalies (based on e.g., share and trade quantity, volatility, relative and absolute value, momentum) with news and other explanatory variables.

The absence of surface explanations implies informed trading and begins an inferential process applied to such connate information based on behavioral models. These techniques are of particular interest in the area of national security and may be used to detect the conduct of strategic rivals and transnational actors in areas such as price manipulation, supply disruption, terrorism, expropriation and portfolio diversification in advance of confrontation.

Importantly, markets are a strategic part of the national economic infrastructure and, like the power grid, may be understood as existing in a self-organized, scale-invariant critical state. As such, they are vulnerable to catastrophic disruption with little warning and no ascertainable cause. This makes markets vulnerable both to orchestrated "swarm" tactics under a doctrine of unrestricted warfare and to periodic collapse. A robust watch function with well-rehearsed "stop loss" methodologies should be as much a part of national security policy as financial regulation. The collection and interpretation of market intelligence (or "MARKINT") is indispensable to these tasks.

Insert:  That's why "Securing Cyberspace for the 44th Presidency (Lt. Gen Raduege)" was drafted up.  Because you criminals at JHUAPL, NCOIC, The Cohen Group (Marc Grossman, Lt. Gen Raduege), Northcom, Booz Allen, et.al., have preemptively developed YOUR totally tyrannical solution to the CRISIS that YOU have yet to create.

[Anti_Illuminati]

Israel is a wholly owned subsidiary of the East India Trading Company, a British Empire building invention.  The British Empire worked with Herzl, Ben Gurian, and Nazis to form Israel. The British Empire also created Wahabis and the Muslim Brotherhood who control 90% of the Middle East. These two groups, hardcore zionists and hard core wahabis, are the left/right of the middle east.  The same is done all over the world by the British Empire (also Dutch Empire) and her social architects at Tavistock.

Bilderberg runs the show and was founded by Queen Beatrix.

Hey Sane,

Someone that I pointed to this thread is calling you out (chat log below):

X: Sane is BS-ing later down in the topic here, I see:
anti_illuminati: But if it was ALREADY done, omfg that is off the charts HUGE if that is actually true
X: "Israel is a wholly owned subsidiary of the East India Trading Company, a British Empire building invention."  <--- no, wtf xD
anti_illuminati: hah X
anti_illuminati: Maybe u should get an account there and chip in, LOL!
X: "The British Empire worked with Herzl, Ben Gurian, and Nazis to form Israel."  <-- before or after Nazi Germany was provocateured into existance for the purpose of mutually destroying the British and Germanic Empires which were obstacles to world governance?
X: I think Sane is forgetting that we are hijacked
X: or does he not remember that Britain, Netherlands, and Denmark were the /anti-globalists/ for quite a while, since they wanted their own /section/ of the world to enclose in borders
X: so it's a bit more complex than "everyone was evil and USA is good"
X: but that's just a minor complaint, I find a lot of them do that, they just assume that our ancestors were all in the NWO club from the dawn of time
anti_illuminati: brb coffee refill
X: but there was a time when fighting FOR the Netherlands was actually 'being a rebel'
X: since that country was formed /by/ pissed off separatists who were tired of getting beaten up
X: but Sane would just ignore that and say they're bad because they have Queen Beatrix the sellout
X: it'd be like saying that the USA is 'evil' because it had Bush, that'd be unfair
X: "What people should also understand is that just like the CIA, Mossad and Shin Bet were created by British Intelligence and Nazi Intelligence."  <--- odd though how Mossad and Shin Bet spent so much time whacking Britons and Germans even though we supposedly 'created' them?


X:lol, oh, one more thing, the Netherlands actually created "New Amsterdam"
X: which they traded with us for Suriname
X: and we then renamed "New Amsterdam" to "New York City", and it became British
X: so that's one of those hilarious things that's often forgotten

[yrpplmean]

I wonder who/what was travelling through terminal E at that time.

That is a scary thought-I wonder who or what was planted.  Anything goes and all is possible.


I can get the gist of things in this thread, some is so technically advanced for my thinking though.  But am sure glad yall know and are spreading this information!    thanks!

[Dig]

Hey Sane,

Someone that I pointed to this thread is calling you out (chat log below):

X: Sane is BS-ing later down in the topic here, I see:
anti_illuminati: But if it was ALREADY done, omfg that is off the charts HUGE if that is actually true
X: "Israel is a wholly owned subsidiary of the East India Trading Company, a British Empire building invention."  <--- no, wtf xD
anti_illuminati: hah X
anti_illuminati: Maybe u should get an account there and chip in, LOL!
X: "The British Empire worked with Herzl, Ben Gurian, and Nazis to form Israel."  <-- before or after Nazi Germany was provocateured into existance for the purpose of mutually destroying the British and Germanic Empires which were obstacles to world governance?
X: I think Sane is forgetting that we are hijacked
X: or does he not remember that Britain, Netherlands, and Denmark were the /anti-globalists/ for quite a while, since they wanted their own /section/ of the world to enclose in borders
X: so it's a bit more complex than "everyone was evil and USA is good"
X: but that's just a minor complaint, I find a lot of them do that, they just assume that our ancestors were all in the NWO club from the dawn of time
anti_illuminati: brb coffee refill
X: but there was a time when fighting FOR the Netherlands was actually 'being a rebel'
X: since that country was formed /by/ pissed off separatists who were tired of getting beaten up
X: but Sane would just ignore that and say they're bad because they have Queen Beatrix the sellout
X: it'd be like saying that the USA is 'evil' because it had Bush, that'd be unfair
X: "What people should also understand is that just like the CIA, Mossad and Shin Bet were created by British Intelligence and Nazi Intelligence."  <--- odd though how Mossad and Shin Bet spent so much time whacking Britons and Germans even though we supposedly 'created' them?


X:lol, oh, one more thing, the Netherlands actually created "New Amsterdam"
X: which they traded with us for Suriname
X: and we then renamed "New Amsterdam" to "New York City", and it became British
X: so that's one of those hilarious things that's often forgotten

Dude, WTF? Has this person ever hears of Bilderberg?

Has this person any knowledge that the EITC and the WITC (Dutch) actually worked together like the fake left/right of today? Oh sure they were at war, yeah all the lowly cannon fodder thought so. Whatever, try and get sourced information, evidence, etc.

Looks like another East Side v. West Side BS to me.  I would like to know one member of the house of windsor that mossad (or the nazis for that matter) have acted against. The British people, Dutch, and israelis are for the most part the same as the chinese, american, or kenyan.  But the elite pharoahs are the issue.  There has always beeen war in the world between the elite and the common man.  How that war has been waged is the only difference. The very nature of these interoperability systems define this struggle-few people controling the lives of many.

[Okinawa]

Mossad/MI6/SAS/CIA all work together for the G7 bankers. 

Listen to Chip Tatum explain: 'Presidential Secrets'--Former CIA Operative Chip Tatum Speaks (83 min) - Dec 20, 2007 - http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4217457994226676654

What people should also understand is that just like the CIA, Mossad and Shin Bet were created by British Intelligence and Nazi Intelligence.

Thanks, the Chip Tatum video was very clear and worth watching.

Now I understand the Mossad connection; they're all on friendly terms. I guess they use the same NWO game plans, methods and techniques. I wonder if they attend the same briefings and training... silly question, got it.

[Anti_Illuminati]

NOT GONNA BOTHER HIGHLIGHTING ANYTHING IN RED, LOL!!!  BECAUSE IT WOULD ALL BE IN RED!!!

http://www.ppionline.org/ppi_ci.cfm?knlgAreaID=124&subsecID=160&contentID=1130



DLC | Blueprint Magazine | January 1, 2000
Get Ready for Cyberwar
By Sam Nunn
Table of Contents


When the Pentagon announced the opening of its new cyberwarfare center in Colorado in October 1999, the news was welcome to anyone who has followed the growing threat of cyberterrorism. The possibility of cyberattack on the United States has loomed on the horizon, and even right at our front door, for years. As the world's most technologically advanced nation, we are also its most technologically vulnerable. While we rightly focus on the growing threat from weapons of mass destruction, we must devote equal energy and attention to the threat from what are now being called weapons of mass disruption.

Never have the dangers associated with weapons of mass effect -- nuclear, biological, chemical and cyber -- been more pervasive. The newest threat is the possibility of attack from cyberspace. Although cyberspace is critical to our economy and our security, its potential for terror, crime, and attack is the least-understood threat we face. Strategic information warfare could be a greater danger than armies, cannons, and airplanes. Digital weaponry can outflank and circumvent military establishments and compromise the underpinnings of our military and civilian infrastructure, which are now one and the same.

It is the explosion of the information revolution that has created our new enemy:

cyberwarriors. Cybersoldiers can be individuals, mad hackers, or wealthy messianic ideologues, like Osama bin Laden. They can work for terrorist groups, rogue nations, or even peaceful governments like our own. Using the tools of information warfare, cyber-terrorists can overload telephone lines with special software; disrupt the operations of air traffic control, as well as shipping and railroad computers; scramble the software used by major financial institutions, hospitals, and other emergency services; alter by remote control the formulas for medication at pharmaceutical plants; change the pressure in gas pipelines to cause a valve failure; and sabotage the New York Stock Exchange.

"The cyberspace revolution is both our essential enabler and our critical vulnerability," says former National Security Agency (NSA) director Lt. Gen. Kenneth Minihan.

Inherently insecure

One reason for our vulnerability is the open architecture of the digital revolution. Our highly networked environment has been built on an intentionally insecure foundation: ARPANET, the Internet's predecessor, which devised packet-switching as a means of communication, was never intended to be secure. As a consequence, our interconnected vital national functions, from credit card transactions to emergency services and our electrical grid, now present a target-rich environment ' for cyberterrorists, computer gangsters, and malicious hackers, as well as for sophisticated state-directed computer experts. This openness, which has made the United States the leader in information technology, has greatly increased our efficiency and productivity, but it has also made us vulnerable. While preserving our openness and our connectivity, we must address our vulnerability.

The truth is that the United States and other developed nations are inevitably exposed to cyberwar. President Clinton has said, "Intentional attacks against our critical systems are already under way." Offensive Information Warfare (IW) capability is something many nations seek.

"These countries recognize that cyber attacks ... against civilian computer systems in the United States represent the kind of asymmetric option they need to level the playing field," says CIA Director George Tenet.

Vulnerabilities

How vulnerable are we? Consider some examples:
In 1997, a Red Team put together by the American intelligence community pretended to be North Korea. Some 35 computer specialists, using hacking tools freely available on 1,900 Web sites, got access that would have allowed them to shut down large segments of America's power grid and disrupt the communications system of the Pacific Command in Honolulu. Called Eligible Receiver, the operation showed how easy it would be to cripple critical military and civilian computer networks -- and to avoid detection.

The Defense Information Systems Agency launched some 38,000 attacks against its own systems to test their vulnerabilities. Only five percent of the people in charge of targeted systems realized they were under attack and, of these, only four percent reported the intrusion to a superior authority. Security has been improved since the test.

Those were gaming probes. In the real world, computer hackers, driven by everything from mischief to hatred, already have amassed an extensive track record:

In 1994, a 16-year-old English youth temporarily took down 100 unclassified U.S. defense systems.

Two years ago, hackers rerouted 911 emergency calls in Florida to sex-service numbers.

An Israeli hacker code-named "The Analyzer" joined with two California hackers to launch cyberattacks on the Pentagon, the National Security Agency, and the national labs, disrupting troop movements.

A computer hacker who called himself the Phantom Dialer seized control of important networks around the world - at universities, corporations, banks, federal agencies, and military facilities. He even hacked into top- secret weapons sites. When an FBI investigative team finally traced the hacking to a 20-year-old in Portland, Ore., they discovered he had severe brain damage from viral hepatitis. The FBI decided not to prosecute.

Operating out of a warehouse in Boston, a group of hackers known as "LOhpt" claims it has uncovered the critical phone numbers needed to shut down the U.S. electrical grid. Yet this same group has also been praised by the National Security Council for helping to close security loopholes, illustrating the fine and destabilizing line between good and bad uses of computer expertise. Today's curious kid can be tomorrow's cyberterrorist.

The smaller players

With the United States' emergence in the past decade as the dominant military force in the world, cyberwar alternatives have become the obvious preferred option of smaller players. Logic bombs, Trojan horses, worms, viruses, denial of service, and other information warfare tools are now the arsenal whereby even marginal foes can take on a superpower that can no longer be challenged with conventional weapons. "In today's electronic environment, many haters can become Saddam Hussein[ s ]," says a recent report by the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS).

Or perhaps a Saddam look-alike can become a threat in a new and different way. Imagine this scenario: After Saddam's defeat in Desert Storm, Libya's Muammar Qaddafi realizes that he cannot confront the United States directly, even with chemical, nuclear, or biological weapons. He instructs his intelligence agency to begin high-priority interviews with young Libyans who have computer skills. The agency recruits the 25 best and brightest among them and gives them a top-secret assignment: Find the electronic and digital vulnerabilities in the U.S. economy, including those in telecommunications, energy, finance, transportation, and emergency services. They are told: You will have unlimited resources and full political backing at the highest levels. Give us a quarterly report on your ability to plant computer germs, to confuse critical computer networks, and to bring down key nodes controlling America's infrastructure -- by city and by region. The future of Libya depends on you and your skills. You must be ready to implement by January 2000.

This sounds like science fiction, and I did make it up. But it is entirely plausible and may even be happening right now. America's adversaries know that the country's real assets are in electronic storage, not in Fort Knox. They also know that our privately owned critical infrastructure is far more vulnerable than our military. The profusion of virtual corporations, cashless electronic transactions, and economies without inventories, based on just-in-time deliveries, will make attacks on data just as destructive as attacks on physical inventories.

How do we prepare a cyberdefense in the digital age? One of the first dilemmas is figuring out who the enemy is. Distinguishing a terrorist from a hacker, or a foreign intelligence agent from a competitor stealing secrets, is not easy. Today we often have to apprehend the culprit before we know who has jurisdiction to investigate.

The sandal culture

We also have to redefine whom our defenders will be. Many of tomorrow's defending warriors will be young computer wizards. The sandal culture is challenging the wingtips and the combat boots. The CSIS report noted that NSA's electronic sheriff, responsible for protecting NSA's ground stations, was a 23-year-old GS-14. In the civilian world, "techies" are moving into senior management positions. One of the government's most critical needs, from the intelligence community to the Pentagon, is a dedicated and sustainable pool of computer talent. The Clinton Administration has proposed a cybercorps of ROTC-type cadets who would be trained from an early stage in information security. But this huge personnel challenge can be met only with the help of the private sector.

A key to the success of cyberdefense is understanding that it is no longer armed troops and killing machines that, alone, stand between us and an aggressor. It is our entire cyberworld. The private sector plays as large a role as the military community in designing our new defense. For years, government led the way in developing the first large-scale computational computers, the first electronic computers, the first microprocessor, the GPS system, and the Internet itself. Today, however, it is a different game. Private R&D efforts often exceed those of the government. Industry today is responsible for a large portion of developments on basic research in information technologies.

Industry's role

Private industry, of course, has its own huge stake in security. And while government leadership is essential, it is obvious that the business community must assume much responsibility for protecting itself -- and for doing the cutting-edge research necessary to shield our public systems, civilian and military, from attack. We must avoid over-regulation so as not to stifle innovation. Yet we cannot leave the direction of our defense purely to market forces. Like the Wild West of the last century, our new frontier of information is exciting, and we must retain the freedom to roam and grow. But if the bad guys shoot up the town every weekend and drunken cowboys ride their horses into the saloon, don't be surprised when the public calls for law and order.

The President's Commission on Critical Infrastructure Protection, headed by retired Gen. Robert T. Marsh, emphasized the importance of new public/private partnerships. Open and honest information sharing between business and government is urgently needed. Businesses should also share more information among themselves, even though this runs counter to their competitive instincts. Top corporate executives, who run much of our civilian infrastructure, must make information security a top priority -- the chief executive officer must understand the challenges of the chief information officer. In addition, the federal government should provide more support for research and increase public awareness of the threat from cyberspace. Finally, we must design new international frameworks for organizing multilateral cyberdefenses with our friends and allies.

In addition to these initiatives, our first challenge should be to prepare and train for cyberattack and its consequences, just as we've done for conventional or nuclear warfare. Our frontline response teams, whether police, fire, medical, or corporate information managers, must be properly prepared and equipped and must practice scenarios and operational plans.

The president's fiscal year 2000 budget called for $1.4 billion in information security funding. Approximately 80 percent of these funds are for the Department of Defense and intelligence agencies. While these are the right priorities, there is not enough funding for other agencies. Only $70 million is slated for research and development, one-third the amount that the Marsh Commission recommended. This essential funding must assume a higher priority.

The challenge from cyberspace presents problems that cannot be solved all at once and never once and for all. The threats will be dynamic and continuing, and our defense must also be able to adapt and change rapidly. In the end, there is no perfect defense. There is only awareness, vigilance, and a commitment to protect our nation against cyberwarfare and other weapons of mass effect. We are at the beginning of a deadly serious, high-stakes game, and we must devote the same resources to it that we did to winning the Cold War. With sufficient education, understanding, and funding, we can succeed.


San Nunn, a former chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, is chairman of the Center for Strategic and International Studies. He co-chaired the Advisory Committee to the Presiden't Commission on Critical Infrastructure Protection.

[lavosslayer]

NOT GONNA BOTHER HIGHLIGHTING ANYTHING IN RED, LOL!!!  BECAUSE IT WOULD ALL BE IN RED!!!

http://www.ppionline.org/ppi_ci.cfm?knlgAreaID=124&subsecID=160&contentID=1130



DLC | Blueprint Magazine | January 1, 2000
Get Ready for Cyberwar
By Sam Nunn
Table of Contents


When the Pentagon announced the opening of its new cyberwarfare center in Colorado in October 1999, the news was welcome to anyone who has followed the growing threat of cyberterrorism. The possibility of cyberattack on the United States has loomed on the horizon, and even right at our front door, for years. As the world's most technologically advanced nation, we are also its most technologically vulnerable. While we rightly focus on the growing threat from weapons of mass destruction, we must devote equal energy and attention to the threat from what are now being called weapons of mass disruption.

Never have the dangers associated with weapons of mass effect -- nuclear, biological, chemical and cyber -- been more pervasive. The newest threat is the possibility of attack from cyberspace. Although cyberspace is critical to our economy and our security, its potential for terror, crime, and attack is the least-understood threat we face. Strategic information warfare could be a greater danger than armies, cannons, and airplanes. Digital weaponry can outflank and circumvent military establishments and compromise the underpinnings of our military and civilian infrastructure, which are now one and the same.

It is the explosion of the information revolution that has created our new enemy:

cyberwarriors. Cybersoldiers can be individuals, mad hackers, or wealthy messianic ideologues, like Osama bin Laden. They can work for terrorist groups, rogue nations, or even peaceful governments like our own. Using the tools of information warfare, cyber-terrorists can overload telephone lines with special software; disrupt the operations of air traffic control, as well as shipping and railroad computers; scramble the software used by major financial institutions, hospitals, and other emergency services; alter by remote control the formulas for medication at pharmaceutical plants; change the pressure in gas pipelines to cause a valve failure; and sabotage the New York Stock Exchange.

"The cyberspace revolution is both our essential enabler and our critical vulnerability," says former National Security Agency (NSA) director Lt. Gen. Kenneth Minihan.

Inherently insecure

One reason for our vulnerability is the open architecture of the digital revolution. Our highly networked environment has been built on an intentionally insecure foundation: ARPANET, the Internet's predecessor, which devised packet-switching as a means of communication, was never intended to be secure. As a consequence, our interconnected vital national functions, from credit card transactions to emergency services and our electrical grid, now present a target-rich environment ' for cyberterrorists, computer gangsters, and malicious hackers, as well as for sophisticated state-directed computer experts. This openness, which has made the United States the leader in information technology, has greatly increased our efficiency and productivity, but it has also made us vulnerable. While preserving our openness and our connectivity, we must address our vulnerability.

The truth is that the United States and other developed nations are inevitably exposed to cyberwar. President Clinton has said, "Intentional attacks against our critical systems are already under way." Offensive Information Warfare (IW) capability is something many nations seek.

"These countries recognize that cyber attacks ... against civilian computer systems in the United States represent the kind of asymmetric option they need to level the playing field," says CIA Director George Tenet.

Vulnerabilities

How vulnerable are we? Consider some examples:
In 1997, a Red Team put together by the American intelligence community pretended to be North Korea. Some 35 computer specialists, using hacking tools freely available on 1,900 Web sites, got access that would have allowed them to shut down large segments of America's power grid and disrupt the communications system of the Pacific Command in Honolulu. Called Eligible Receiver, the operation showed how easy it would be to cripple critical military and civilian computer networks -- and to avoid detection.

The Defense Information Systems Agency launched some 38,000 attacks against its own systems to test their vulnerabilities. Only five percent of the people in charge of targeted systems realized they were under attack and, of these, only four percent reported the intrusion to a superior authority. Security has been improved since the test.

Those were gaming probes. In the real world, computer hackers, driven by everything from mischief to hatred, already have amassed an extensive track record:

In 1994, a 16-year-old English youth temporarily took down 100 unclassified U.S. defense systems.

Two years ago, hackers rerouted 911 emergency calls in Florida to sex-service numbers.

An Israeli hacker code-named "The Analyzer" joined with two California hackers to launch cyberattacks on the Pentagon, the National Security Agency, and the national labs, disrupting troop movements.

A computer hacker who called himself the Phantom Dialer seized control of important networks around the world - at universities, corporations, banks, federal agencies, and military facilities. He even hacked into top- secret weapons sites. When an FBI investigative team finally traced the hacking to a 20-year-old in Portland, Ore., they discovered he had severe brain damage from viral hepatitis. The FBI decided not to prosecute.

Operating out of a warehouse in Boston, a group of hackers known as "LOhpt" claims it has uncovered the critical phone numbers needed to shut down the U.S. electrical grid. Yet this same group has also been praised by the National Security Council for helping to close security loopholes, illustrating the fine and destabilizing line between good and bad uses of computer expertise. Today's curious kid can be tomorrow's cyberterrorist.

The smaller players

With the United States' emergence in the past decade as the dominant military force in the world, cyberwar alternatives have become the obvious preferred option of smaller players. Logic bombs, Trojan horses, worms, viruses, denial of service, and other information warfare tools are now the arsenal whereby even marginal foes can take on a superpower that can no longer be challenged with conventional weapons. "In today's electronic environment, many haters can become Saddam Hussein[ s ]," says a recent report by the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS).

Or perhaps a Saddam look-alike can become a threat in a new and different way. Imagine this scenario: After Saddam's defeat in Desert Storm, Libya's Muammar Qaddafi realizes that he cannot confront the United States directly, even with chemical, nuclear, or biological weapons. He instructs his intelligence agency to begin high-priority interviews with young Libyans who have computer skills. The agency recruits the 25 best and brightest among them and gives them a top-secret assignment: Find the electronic and digital vulnerabilities in the U.S. economy, including those in telecommunications, energy, finance, transportation, and emergency services. They are told: You will have unlimited resources and full political backing at the highest levels. Give us a quarterly report on your ability to plant computer germs, to confuse critical computer networks, and to bring down key nodes controlling America's infrastructure -- by city and by region. The future of Libya depends on you and your skills. You must be ready to implement by January 2000.

This sounds like science fiction, and I did make it up. But it is entirely plausible and may even be happening right now. America's adversaries know that the country's real assets are in electronic storage, not in Fort Knox. They also know that our privately owned critical infrastructure is far more vulnerable than our military. The profusion of virtual corporations, cashless electronic transactions, and economies without inventories, based on just-in-time deliveries, will make attacks on data just as destructive as attacks on physical inventories.

How do we prepare a cyberdefense in the digital age? One of the first dilemmas is figuring out who the enemy is. Distinguishing a terrorist from a hacker, or a foreign intelligence agent from a competitor stealing secrets, is not easy. Today we often have to apprehend the culprit before we know who has jurisdiction to investigate.

The sandal culture

We also have to redefine whom our defenders will be. Many of tomorrow's defending warriors will be young computer wizards. The sandal culture is challenging the wingtips and the combat boots. The CSIS report noted that NSA's electronic sheriff, responsible for protecting NSA's ground stations, was a 23-year-old GS-14. In the civilian world, "techies" are moving into senior management positions. One of the government's most critical needs, from the intelligence community to the Pentagon, is a dedicated and sustainable pool of computer talent. The Clinton Administration has proposed a cybercorps of ROTC-type cadets who would be trained from an early stage in information security. But this huge personnel challenge can be met only with the help of the private sector.

A key to the success of cyberdefense is understanding that it is no longer armed troops and killing machines that, alone, stand between us and an aggressor. It is our entire cyberworld. The private sector plays as large a role as the military community in designing our new defense. For years, government led the way in developing the first large-scale computational computers, the first electronic computers, the first microprocessor, the GPS system, and the Internet itself. Today, however, it is a different game. Private R&D efforts often exceed those of the government. Industry today is responsible for a large portion of developments on basic research in information technologies.

Industry's role

Private industry, of course, has its own huge stake in security. And while government leadership is essential, it is obvious that the business community must assume much responsibility for protecting itself -- and for doing the cutting-edge research necessary to shield our public systems, civilian and military, from attack. We must avoid over-regulation so as not to stifle innovation. Yet we cannot leave the direction of our defense purely to market forces. Like the Wild West of the last century, our new frontier of information is exciting, and we must retain the freedom to roam and grow. But if the bad guys shoot up the town every weekend and drunken cowboys ride their horses into the saloon, don't be surprised when the public calls for law and order.

The President's Commission on Critical Infrastructure Protection, headed by retired Gen. Robert T. Marsh, emphasized the importance of new public/private partnerships. Open and honest information sharing between business and government is urgently needed. Businesses should also share more information among themselves, even though this runs counter to their competitive instincts. Top corporate executives, who run much of our civilian infrastructure, must make information security a top priority -- the chief executive officer must understand the challenges of the chief information officer. In addition, the federal government should provide more support for research and increase public awareness of the threat from cyberspace. Finally, we must design new international frameworks for organizing multilateral cyberdefenses with our friends and allies.

In addition to these initiatives, our first challenge should be to prepare and train for cyberattack and its consequences, just as we've done for conventional or nuclear warfare. Our frontline response teams, whether police, fire, medical, or corporate information managers, must be properly prepared and equipped and must practice scenarios and operational plans.

The president's fiscal year 2000 budget called for $1.4 billion in information security funding. Approximately 80 percent of these funds are for the Department of Defense and intelligence agencies. While these are the right priorities, there is not enough funding for other agencies. Only $70 million is slated for research and development, one-third the amount that the Marsh Commission recommended. This essential funding must assume a higher priority.

The challenge from cyberspace presents problems that cannot be solved all at once and never once and for all. The threats will be dynamic and continuing, and our defense must also be able to adapt and change rapidly. In the end, there is no perfect defense. There is only awareness, vigilance, and a commitment to protect our nation against cyberwarfare and other weapons of mass effect. We are at the beginning of a deadly serious, high-stakes game, and we must devote the same resources to it that we did to winning the Cold War. With sufficient education, understanding, and funding, we can succeed.


San Nunn, a former chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, is chairman of the Center for Strategic and International Studies. He co-chaired the Advisory Committee to the Presiden't Commission on Critical Infrastructure Protection.

Since AI didn't do it I will...

[lavosslayer]

Pentagon Official: North Korea Behind Week of Cyber Attacks

Thursday, July 09, 2009

AP

North Korea was indeed behind the cyberattacks that targeted dozens of Web sites in the U.S. and South Korea over the past week, a U.S. defense official told Fox News Wednesday afternoon.

The unnamed Pentagon official added that the attack did not penetrate the Department of Defense's computer systems, which are constantly being probed from outside.

Some defense officials complained privately that the Department of Homeland Security was taking the lead on protecting government agencies from cyber attacks, and yet the Pentagon wasn't informed about the attacks until Wednesday — by hearing about it from the media.

Another source told Fox News that the attacks actually began a week ago, not Saturday as previously reported.

In what's known as a "DDoS," or distributed denial-of-service, attack, a huge number of "zombie computers" gathered together in a "botnet" were directed to all go to U.S. government Web sites at the exact same time, which shuts down less-robust sites because they can't handle all the traffic at once.

"It's just overloading the system," the source said.

In this case, the attacks were able to shut down some Web sites, but they were never able to penetrate the security systems surrounding them. By their very nature, DDoS attacks do not compromise security or steal or damage information — they simply knock Web sites offline and tie up valuable resources and manpower.

"It's not beyond the realm of possibly that a nation such as North Korea would be able to do this," Eugene H. Spafford, director of Purdue University's Center for Education and Research in Information Assurance and Security, told FoxNews.com. "But i suspect it's really a third party, some group or political party sympathetic to North Korea."

Yang Moo-jin, a professor at Seoul's University of North Korean Studies, said he doubts whether the impoverished North has the capability to knock down the Web sites.

But Hong Hyun-ik, an analyst at the Sejong Institute think tank, said the attack could have been done by either North Korea or China, saying he "heard North Korea has been working hard to hack into" South Korean networks.

Mike Fitzpatrick, CEO of NCX Group Inc., a California-based information risk-management firm, thinks that anyone could be responsible, because such a sophisticated botnet wouldn't be wasted on taking down government Web sites, an endeavor with no financial gain.

"They're valuable," he told FoxNews.com. "Someone who goes out of their way to build one of these isn't going to sacrifice it on something like this."

Furthermore, Fitzpatrick think this might just be an attempt to divert our attention from something more sinister.

"It could be a distraction," Fitzpatrick added, "a ploy to suck up resources and personnel from what the real target is."

The powerful attacks were even broader than initially realized, also targeting the White House, the Pentagon and the New York Stock Exchange.

Other targets of the attack included the National Security Agency, Homeland Security Department, State Department, the Nasdaq stock market and The Washington Post, according to an early analysis of the malicious software used in the attacks.

Some government Web sites — such as the Treasury Department, Federal Trade Commission and Secret Service — were still reporting problems days after the attack started.

The South Korean sites included the presidential Blue House, the Defense Ministry, the National Assembly, Shinhan Bank, Korea Exchange Bank and top Internet portal Naver, all of which went down or had access problems beginning late Tuesday.

Earlier Wednesday, South Korea's National Intelligence Service said in a statement that 12,000 computers in South Korea and 8,000 computers overseas had been infected and used for the cyber attack.

The agency said it believed the attack was "thoroughly" prepared and committed by hackers "at the level of a certain organization or state." It said it was cooperating with the American investigators to examine the case.

"It doesn't requre much in the way of resources to do something like this," said Spafford. "Criminal enterprises will rent part of existing botnets to do whatever you want."

But he added that it wouldn't be easy to find out definitively who's behind it.

"You can find out where the computers being used in the attack are, but there's no easy way to trace that back further to see who's controlling the botnet," said Spafford.

South Korea's NIS said it believed the attack was "thoroughly" prepared and committed by hackers "at the level of a certain organization or state." It said it was cooperating with the American investigators to examine the case.

South Korean media reported in May that North Korea was running a cyber warfare unit that tries to hack into U.S. and South Korean military networks to gather confidential information and disrupt service.

An initial investigation in South Korea found that many personal computers were infected with a virus program ordering them to visit major official Web sites in South Korea and the U.S. at the same time, Korean information agency official Shin Hwa-su said.

There have been no immediate reports of similar cyber attack in other Asian countries.

Amy Kudwa, spokeswoman for the Homeland Security Department, said the agency's U.S. Computer Emergency Readiness Team issued a notice to federal departments and other partner organizations about the problems and "advised them of steps to take to help mitigate against such attacks."

The U.S., she said, sees attacks on its networks every day, and measures have been put in place to minimize the impact on federal Web sites.

New York Stock Exchange spokesman Ray Pellecchia could not confirm the attack, saying the company does not comment on security issues.

Others familiar with the U.S. outage said the fact that the government Web sites were still being affected three days after it began signaling an unusually lengthy and sophisticated attack.

Attacks on federal computer networks are common, ranging from nuisance hacking to more serious assaults, sometimes blamed on China. U.S. security officials also worry about cyber attacks from Al Qaeda or other terrorists.

Ben Rushlo, director of Internet technologies at Web site monitoring company Keynote Systems, said problems with the Transportation Department site began Saturday and continued until Monday, while the FTC site was down Sunday and Monday.

According to Rushlo, the Transportation Web site was "100 percent down" for two days, so that no Internet users could get through to it.

"This is very strange. You don't see this," he said. "Having something 100 percent down for a 24-hour-plus period is a pretty significant event."

He added that, "The fact that it lasted for so long and that it was so significant in its ability to bring the site down says something about the site's ability to fend off [an attack] or about the severity of the attack."

Fox News' Jennifer Griffin, Mike Levine, Paul Wagenseil and the Associated Press contributed to this story.

NOT GONNA BOTHER HIGHLIGHTING ANYTHING IN RED, LOL!!!  BECAUSE IT WOULD ALL BE IN RED!!!

http://www.ppionline.org/ppi_ci.cfm?knlgAreaID=124&subsecID=160&contentID=1130



DLC | Blueprint Magazine | January 1, 2000
Get Ready for Cyberwar
By Sam Nunn
Table of Contents


When the Pentagon announced the opening of its new cyberwarfare center in Colorado in October 1999, the news was welcome to anyone who has followed the growing threat of cyberterrorism. The possibility of cyberattack on the United States has loomed on the horizon, and even right at our front door, for years. As the world's most technologically advanced nation, we are also its most technologically vulnerable. While we rightly focus on the growing threat from weapons of mass destruction, we must devote equal energy and attention to the threat from what are now being called weapons of mass disruption.

Never have the dangers associated with weapons of mass effect -- nuclear, biological, chemical and cyber -- been more pervasive. The newest threat is the possibility of attack from cyberspace. Although cyberspace is critical to our economy and our security, its potential for terror, crime, and attack is the least-understood threat we face. Strategic information warfare could be a greater danger than armies, cannons, and airplanes. Digital weaponry can outflank and circumvent military establishments and compromise the underpinnings of our military and civilian infrastructure, which are now one and the same.

It is the explosion of the information revolution that has created our new enemy:

cyberwarriors. Cybersoldiers can be individuals, mad hackers, or wealthy messianic ideologues, like Osama bin Laden. They can work for terrorist groups, rogue nations, or even peaceful governments like our own. Using the tools of information warfare, cyber-terrorists can overload telephone lines with special software; disrupt the operations of air traffic control, as well as shipping and railroad computers; scramble the software used by major financial institutions, hospitals, and other emergency services; alter by remote control the formulas for medication at pharmaceutical plants; change the pressure in gas pipelines to cause a valve failure; and sabotage the New York Stock Exchange.

"The cyberspace revolution is both our essential enabler and our critical vulnerability," says former National Security Agency (NSA) director Lt. Gen. Kenneth Minihan.

Inherently insecure

One reason for our vulnerability is the open architecture of the digital revolution. Our highly networked environment has been built on an intentionally insecure foundation: ARPANET, the Internet's predecessor, which devised packet-switching as a means of communication, was never intended to be secure. As a consequence, our interconnected vital national functions, from credit card transactions to emergency services and our electrical grid, now present a target-rich environment ' for cyberterrorists, computer gangsters, and malicious hackers, as well as for sophisticated state-directed computer experts. This openness, which has made the United States the leader in information technology, has greatly increased our efficiency and productivity, but it has also made us vulnerable. While preserving our openness and our connectivity, we must address our vulnerability.

The truth is that the United States and other developed nations are inevitably exposed to cyberwar. President Clinton has said, "Intentional attacks against our critical systems are already under way." Offensive Information Warfare (IW) capability is something many nations seek.

"These countries recognize that cyber attacks ... against civilian computer systems in the United States represent the kind of asymmetric option they need to level the playing field," says CIA Director George Tenet.

Vulnerabilities

How vulnerable are we? Consider some examples:
In 1997, a Red Team put together by the American intelligence community pretended to be North Korea. Some 35 computer specialists, using hacking tools freely available on 1,900 Web sites, got access that would have allowed them to shut down large segments of America's power grid and disrupt the communications system of the Pacific Command in Honolulu. Called Eligible Receiver, the operation showed how easy it would be to cripple critical military and civilian computer networks -- and to avoid detection.

The Defense Information Systems Agency launched some 38,000 attacks against its own systems to test their vulnerabilities. Only five percent of the people in charge of targeted systems realized they were under attack and, of these, only four percent reported the intrusion to a superior authority. Security has been improved since the test.

Those were gaming probes. In the real world, computer hackers, driven by everything from mischief to hatred, already have amassed an extensive track record:

In 1994, a 16-year-old English youth temporarily took down 100 unclassified U.S. defense systems.

Two years ago, hackers rerouted 911 emergency calls in Florida to sex-service numbers.

An Israeli hacker code-named "The Analyzer" joined with two California hackers to launch cyberattacks on the Pentagon, the National Security Agency, and the national labs, disrupting troop movements.

A computer hacker who called himself the Phantom Dialer seized control of important networks around the world - at universities, corporations, banks, federal agencies, and military facilities. He even hacked into top- secret weapons sites. When an FBI investigative team finally traced the hacking to a 20-year-old in Portland, Ore., they discovered he had severe brain damage from viral hepatitis. The FBI decided not to prosecute.

Operating out of a warehouse in Boston, a group of hackers known as "LOhpt" claims it has uncovered the critical phone numbers needed to shut down the U.S. electrical grid. Yet this same group has also been praised by the National Security Council for helping to close security loopholes, illustrating the fine and destabilizing line between good and bad uses of computer expertise. Today's curious kid can be tomorrow's cyberterrorist.

The smaller players

With the United States' emergence in the past decade as the dominant military force in the world, cyberwar alternatives have become the obvious preferred option of smaller players. Logic bombs, Trojan horses, worms, viruses, denial of service, and other information warfare tools are now the arsenal whereby even marginal foes can take on a superpower that can no longer be challenged with conventional weapons. "In today's electronic environment, many haters can become Saddam Hussein[ s ]," says a recent report by the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS).

Or perhaps a Saddam look-alike can become a threat in a new and different way. Imagine this scenario: After Saddam's defeat in Desert Storm, Libya's Muammar Qaddafi realizes that he cannot confront the United States directly, even with chemical, nuclear, or biological weapons. He instructs his intelligence agency to begin high-priority interviews with young Libyans who have computer skills. The agency recruits the 25 best and brightest among them and gives them a top-secret assignment: Find the electronic and digital vulnerabilities in the U.S. economy, including those in telecommunications, energy, finance, transportation, and emergency services. They are told: You will have unlimited resources and full political backing at the highest levels. Give us a quarterly report on your ability to plant computer germs, to confuse critical computer networks, and to bring down key nodes controlling America's infrastructure -- by city and by region. The future of Libya depends on you and your skills. You must be ready to implement by January 2000.

This sounds like science fiction, and I did make it up. But it is entirely plausible and may even be happening right now. America's adversaries know that the country's real assets are in electronic storage, not in Fort Knox. They also know that our privately owned critical infrastructure is far more vulnerable than our military. The profusion of virtual corporations, cashless electronic transactions, and economies without inventories, based on just-in-time deliveries, will make attacks on data just as destructive as attacks on physical inventories.

How do we prepare a cyberdefense in the digital age? One of the first dilemmas is figuring out who the enemy is. Distinguishing a terrorist from a hacker, or a foreign intelligence agent from a competitor stealing secrets, is not easy. Today we often have to apprehend the culprit before we know who has jurisdiction to investigate.

The sandal culture

We also have to redefine whom our defenders will be. Many of tomorrow's defending warriors will be young computer wizards. The sandal culture is challenging the wingtips and the combat boots. The CSIS report noted that NSA's electronic sheriff, responsible for protecting NSA's ground stations, was a 23-year-old GS-14. In the civilian world, "techies" are moving into senior management positions. One of the government's most critical needs, from the intelligence community to the Pentagon, is a dedicated and sustainable pool of computer talent. The Clinton Administration has proposed a cybercorps of ROTC-type cadets who would be trained from an early stage in information security. But this huge personnel challenge can be met only with the help of the private sector.

A key to the success of cyberdefense is understanding that it is no longer armed troops and killing machines that, alone, stand between us and an aggressor. It is our entire cyberworld. The private sector plays as large a role as the military community in designing our new defense. For years, government led the way in developing the first large-scale computational computers, the first electronic computers, the first microprocessor, the GPS system, and the Internet itself. Today, however, it is a different game. Private R&D efforts often exceed those of the government. Industry today is responsible for a large portion of developments on basic research in information technologies.

Industry's role

Private industry, of course, has its own huge stake in security. And while government leadership is essential, it is obvious that the business community must assume much responsibility for protecting itself -- and for doing the cutting-edge research necessary to shield our public systems, civilian and military, from attack. We must avoid over-regulation so as not to stifle innovation. Yet we cannot leave the direction of our defense purely to market forces. Like the Wild West of the last century, our new frontier of information is exciting, and we must retain the freedom to roam and grow. But if the bad guys shoot up the town every weekend and drunken cowboys ride their horses into the saloon, don't be surprised when the public calls for law and order.

The President's Commission on Critical Infrastructure Protection, headed by retired Gen. Robert T. Marsh, emphasized the importance of new public/private partnerships. Open and honest information sharing between business and government is urgently needed. Businesses should also share more information among themselves, even though this runs counter to their competitive instincts. Top corporate executives, who run much of our civilian infrastructure, must make information security a top priority -- the chief executive officer must understand the challenges of the chief information officer. In addition, the federal government should provide more support for research and increase public awareness of the threat from cyberspace. Finally, we must design new international frameworks for organizing multilateral cyberdefenses with our friends and allies.

In addition to these initiatives, our first challenge should be to prepare and train for cyberattack and its consequences, just as we've done for conventional or nuclear warfare. Our frontline response teams, whether police, fire, medical, or corporate information managers, must be properly prepared and equipped and must practice scenarios and operational plans.

The president's fiscal year 2000 budget called for $1.4 billion in information security funding. Approximately 80 percent of these funds are for the Department of Defense and intelligence agencies. While these are the right priorities, there is not enough funding for other agencies. Only $70 million is slated for research and development, one-third the amount that the Marsh Commission recommended. This essential funding must assume a higher priority.

The challenge from cyberspace presents problems that cannot be solved all at once and never once and for all. The threats will be dynamic and continuing, and our defense must also be able to adapt and change rapidly. In the end, there is no perfect defense. There is only awareness, vigilance, and a commitment to protect our nation against cyberwarfare and other weapons of mass effect. We are at the beginning of a deadly serious, high-stakes game, and we must devote the same resources to it that we did to winning the Cold War. With sufficient education, understanding, and funding, we can succeed.


San Nunn, a former chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, is chairman of the Center for Strategic and International Studies. He co-chaired the Advisory Committee to the Presiden't Commission on Critical Infrastructure Protection.

So as you can see..."that trash" is actually some pretty damning shit!!! It literally spells out that US forces can pretend to be North Korea (or any other country for that matter )and carry out false flag cyber attacks. If you can't figure that out now there is no hope for you I'm afraid...