***CIA's Red Teams Plan "Cyber Reichtag Fire" to Help Pass CISPA/Nazi BS

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CIA's Gov Operatives plan "Cyber Reichtag Fire" to help pass CISPA/Nazi BS
CIA's Controlled Hackers Targets Facebook, IBM, Intel and AT&T in Operation Defense Phase II
CIA's Operation Phase II Gives Cover for SAIC to Conduct a Cyber False Flag
http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/articles/327682/20120413/cispa-operation-defense-anonymous-pledges-attack-intel.htm
By Gianluca Mezzofiore: Subscribe to Gianluca's RSS feed

April 13, 2012 11:37 AM GMT
 
Anonymous urged members to launch Distributed Denial of Service attack against Intel, but its website appeared to be still online The Anonymous hacking collective has pledged to bring down the website of Intel in protest at an anti-piracy bill that would permit the US government to strengthen security networks against cyber-attacks. Anonymous called its members to launch a Distributed Denial of Service attack against the computer firm, but the company's website appeared to be still online. With a video posted on YouTube, the collective announced Phase Two of Operation Defense, an initiative to fight the proposed Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (Cispa), which has already drawn criticism from advocates of internet privacy and security experts.

"Phase I of Operation Defense is running smoothly," says the video. "We've managed to disable most of our targets. Our targets include any corporation involved in the support of the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act and those who were responsible in creating it." Boeing was among the companies targeted in Phase I. According to the collective, Phase II will start in two weeks and will include demonstrations in the streets. "Attacks will not be limited to Distributed Denial of Service attacks," says the video. "Phase II will commence on May 1 and will include coordinated physical protests outside locations belonging to the corporations."

Intel is one of the 30 private companies that have backed Cispa, which will enable businesses and the government to more easily share cyber-security information. Critics claim that the legislation contains few restraints on how and when the government may monitor private information, and that it may be likely to damage file sharers rather than foreign spies or hackers. The list includes tech and IT companies such as Edison Electric, Microsoft, Facebook, IBM, US Telecom, Verizon Wireless and Symantec as well as communications and phone firms and associations such as the National Cable & Telecommunications Association, AT&T and Comptel. "This so-called cyber-security bill aims to prevent theft of 'government information' and 'intellectual property' and could let ISPs block your access to a website - or the whole internet," civil rights organisation Demand Progress said. "Cispa also encourages companies to share information about you with the government and other corporations. "That data could then be used for just about anything - from prosecuting crimes to ad placements. And perhaps worst of all, Cispa supersedes all existing online privacy protections." Cyber-activists fear the law would be as pernicious as Sopa, the Stop Online Privacy Act, which was withdrawn by the White House and the US Senate after a mass protest by hundreds of major user-generated content websites. "Cispa is likely to lead to expansion of the government's role in the monitoring of private communications," said the Centre for Democracy and Technology. "Cispa is likely to shift control of government cyber-security efforts from civilian agencies to the military. Once the information is shared with the government, it wouldn't have to be used for cyber-security but for other purposes." Anonymous had previously attacked two technology firm associations for supporting Cispa. TechAmerica and US Telecom confirmed they were targeted with a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) assault by the collective.

"By launching a cyber-attack in an effort to coerce, intimidate and stifle speech, members of Anonymous are acting contrary to the very freedoms and internet norms that they espouse," Walter McCormick, president of US Telecom, told Bloomberg. Shawn Osborne, TechAmerica's president, said: "These types of strong-arm tactics have no place in the critical discussions our country needs to be having about our cyber-security, they just underscore the importance of them."

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CSIS's Congressional Cybersecrity Caucus and Michael Chertoff threaten a Cyber-9/11 if CISPA is not passed

About CSIS's Congressional Cybersecurity Caucus and its Power to manipulate legislation

Congressman Jim Langevin (RI-D) and  Congressman Mike McCaul (R-TX) founded the first-ever Congressional Cybersecurity Caucus in September 2008.  As Co-Chairs of the CSIS Commission on Cybersecurity for the 44th Presidency, Langevin and McCaul had been actively engaged in identifying challenges and making recommendations for the incoming Administration, and they wanted to create an opportunity for more members of Congress to get engaged in the same discussions.  While Congress plays a key role in the future of cybersecurity policy, the overlap of committee jurisdictions can sometimes divide the attention and focus of Congress on these issues.  Congressmen Langevin and McCaul hope that this Caucus will help raise awareness and provide a forum for Members representing different committees of jurisdiction to discuss the challenges in securing cyberspace.
CSIS Commission on Cybersecurity for the 44th Presidency
http://csis.org/program/commission-cybersecurity-44th-presidency
The House Cyber Security Summit was held on April 17, 2012.

McCaul remarks -  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wPUABeXKcnY

Langevin remarks - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qU7J_wC6qPs

Chertoff opening remarks - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XGOs3cWHg7g
Chertoff and the Banksters:
Pass CISPA or Red Teams will initiate a Cyber-9/11
http://congressionalcybersecuritycaucus.langevin.house.gov/news/press-releases/2012/04/chertoff-industry-cyber-threat-is-urgent-action-needed.shtml
April 17, 2012 9:21 PM

The threat of a devastating cyber attack on America's critical infrastructure is real, the consequences would be costly and the need for action by Congress is urgent.  That is the consensus of a panel of technology, energy and banking industry representatives, and a former Secretary of Homeland Security.
 
"It doesn't take a lot to understand how an attack on critical infrastructure during a time of tension could seriously undermine the ability of a country to defend itself," said former Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff, who keynoted a House Cybersecurity Caucus Summit on Capital Hill Tuesday.  "We don't want to have another 9/11 in order to learn this lesson."
 
"It's of great concern in terms of protecting businesses and the private sector from the theft of intellectual property, espionage and the potential of denial of service attacks or a reprogramming virus like Stuxnet that could cripple the nation," said Congressman Michael McCaul (R-TX), co-chair of the House Cyber Caucus, referring to the virus that crippled Iran's nuclear facilities. 
 
"We have to redouble our efforts.  This is important not only to our national security but to our infrastructure and our economic competitiveness," said Congressman Jim Langevin (D-RI), co-chair of the House Cyber Caucus.  "This is a time more than ever when we need closer collaboration between the public and private sector."
 
"We are batting a thousand,” said Roger Cressey of the corporate cybersecurity consulting firm Booze, Allen, Hamilton.  “We have yet to find a network that has not been penetrated by a sophisticated adversary.  The message today: the threat is urgent and real. We need to take steps.”
 
The Cyber Summit served as a prelude to as many as half a dozen pieces of cyber legislation on which the House is expected to vote next week.  Congressman McCaul's Cybersecurity Enhancement Act would harden federal networks, increase research and development, strengthen education and awareness of hygiene, and procurement policies to influence the private sector to better secure their networks.  Other bills would encourage sharing of signature threat information between the public and private sector. 
 
"I had the experience of living through an event that occurred after there was a fair amount of warning and four planes were hijacked and we lost about 3,000 people.  My message to anybody who's interested in this, particularly in Congress, is let's do something meaningful because it is not a tolerable situation," Chertoff said.
 

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Top 'Anonymous' Figurehead and LulzSec Leader Was Govt Snitch Who Helped Feds
http://www.conspiracyplanet.com/channel.cfm?channelid=152&contentid=9621
by KIM ZETTER (WIRED.COM)

(Editor's Note: To those readers who are familiar with the term "controlled opposition," the public figurehead of Anonymous and LulzSec has been revealed as a police informant who has apparently ratted out his genuinely subversive hacker colleagues.

One has to ask the question exactly how long were these groups infiltrated, or were they even set-up to attract idealistic, highly skilled hackers -- like bugs to a night-lite?

Deception seems to fuel most modern paradigms which society is being presented in the 21st century.}

(March 6, 2012) A top LulzSec leader turned informant after he was secretly arrested last year and then provided information to law enforcement which resulted in the arrest on two continents Tuesday of other top members of the hacking group, including one of the alleged leaders of the Stratfor hack, according to a news report.
LulzSec, Anonymous & WikiLeaks: Govt Propaganda
http://www.conspiracyplanet.com/channel.cfm?channelid=152&contentid=9628
by BRIT DEE (ACTIVIST POST)

(March 7, 2012) Anonymous Hacked/WikiLeaks Released Stratfor Emails Were Stored On FBI Server

Following yesterday's revelation that a key figure in the hacker collective LulzSec had actually been working for the FBI since mid-2011, the release of alleged informant Hector Xavier Monsegur's court documents reveal that the FBI had even provided him with a server, onto which data was transferred by the hackers.

The 71 pages of the prosecution's indictment make multiple references to a New York server provided to Monsegur by the FBI, which he made available to other alleged LulzSec/Anonymous hackers for the transference of hacked data -- specifically, email data hacked from the private intelligence analysis firm Stratfor. It is this data which the whistleblower organization WikiLeaks has recently started publishing.

In the indictment document Monsegur is referred to as "CW-1", whilst "HAMMOND" refers to his fellow alleged hacker, Jeremy Hammond. On page 13 of the indictment we learn that:
Hector Xavier Monsegur, a 28-year-old New Yorker who allegedly used the online name "Sabu," has been working undercover for the feds since the FBI arrested him without fanfare last June, according to FoxNews.

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Jesus Christ, Are we going to need to get a PR rep now.

I am sick and tired of seeing Anonymous in the headlines.  It's like we are becoming the OBL of the interwebz.

I can just see an "official" spokes person speaking on behalf of the collective.  I will tell you this.  IF that ever happens.

WE are not involved.

on another note.  Check out the logo for last years DEFCON on the floor.  After seeing this I am thinking of bowing out of the scene.  http://w3.cultdeadcow.com/cms/  about half way down the page.

Another problem I am seeing is that the collective are supposed to be "underground" and here we are rising to the surface and becoming main stream which is against everything we stand for.  This is NOT cool.

I fear something is amiss, like we are being used to promote an agenda that most of us are trying to fight against.