US To Stage Massive Cyber Attack War Game On February 16

U.S. To Be Hit By Massive Cyber Attack On Feb. 16. Asterisk.

OnFebruary 16, at about 10:00 am ET, the U.S. will be hit by a massive,crippling cyber attack from an unknown entity. Key players will convenein the White House situation room and plan the response, frommitigation to (possibly) retaliation. It’ll be live on television –G.N.N.

Of course, my knowledge of this attack will not add me tothe radar screens of the FBI — they know about it too.  The reason Ifelt compelled to write a pseudo-serious lead to this post is because,for the first time, a cyber attack is going to be war-gamed, in public,for all the country to see. It will be quite realistic, featuringsenior intelligence and national security officials, including formerdirectors of intelligence agencies and combatant commands and homelandsecurity advisers. A production company has been hired to re-create aWhite House Sit Room in the Mandarin Oriental Hotel, and professionalscriptwriters have been working with experts to create a real-lifescenario.

The sponsors of the event include companies with financial stakes inthe future of cyber defense — General Dynamics is one — but alsocompanies whose transactions are the lifeblood to the American economy,and who want to foster a greater sense of urgency among the public andpolicymakers. (PayPal has joined as a sponsor.)

Actual participants don’t know what’s going to happen. I have a generalidea, but I have been sworn to keep the scenario a secret until itunfolds. It will be, I can say, dynamic — runners with cards willenter the “Sit Room” with new information. It is not obvious. And itwill not be easy to mitigate.

At the end, participants will step out of their roles for a hotwash — open to the press and the experts.

At least three times this year, the U.S. government has held privateversions of cyber wargames. This will be open to the press. CNN hasagreed to record the event for broadcast later in the week.

Participants include John Negroponte, the first DNI, who will be thefictional Secretary of State. (Intel insiders will enjoy this rolechange.)  Ex-DHS Secretary Michael Chertoff will be the NationalSecurity Adviser. Fran Townsend, the former White House HomelandSecurity Adviser, will be the secretary of DHS.  Former CIA deputydirector John McLaughlin will be the Director of NationalIntelligence.  Other big-name participants include Jamie Gorelick,Stewart Baker, Joe Lockhart and Bennet Johnson.

TheBipartisan Policy Center, which has ported over the 9/11 Commissionco-chairs, Lee Hamilton and Tom Keane, is coordinating the event.

American Era Of “Techno-Slavery” Warned Has Begun

A most intriguing report authored by Minister Alina Levitskaya, who heads the Department of State Policy Concerning Youth, Education and the Social Protection of Children of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation, warns that the Motherland should not adopt (in any form) the educational polices of the United States as they pertain to computer and digital education of children as new research is showing that young American adults and children are in “grave danger” of becoming “techno-slaves” who will soon be unable to “fully function” in any “normal world” interaction with other human beings.

 

  

 

The greatest danger posed by this rising class of “techno-slaves” in America, this report states, is their having been deliberately cut-off from the knowledge of the ancients contained in our World’s oldest religious manuscripts that warned of a time when “no man might buy or sell save he that had the mark”, that refers to what is commonly called the “Mark of the Beast”.

[Note: The Greek word used for “mark” (as in Mark of the Beast) is “charagma” and was the seal stamped with the name and date of the emperor and attached to commercial documents used by the Roman Empire.] 

So insidious has the indoctrination of these “techno-slaves” become in the United States that for the past 30 years virtually all knowledge of the ancients has been wiped from their memory and the teaching to them of any religious subject has been outlawed, including a US Supreme Court ruling this past month that forbade a mother from reading a Bible verse in her son’s kindergarten class during “show and tell” time.

Important to note is that during the creation of these American “techno-slaves” over these past 30 years the wealth of the United States has shifted from its once admired, and staunchly Christian, middle classes to the top 1% of its elite classes leaving this once great nation on the verge of moral and economic collapse. 

Equally important to note is that while the United States has embarked upon this path of self destruction, the Motherland, after having broken free from the bonds of Communist rule, and in seeing the deliberate annihilation of American children by their elite rulers, has made it mandatory for all Russian students to study the ancient religion and by Presidential decree ordered Orthodox priests to serve in all army units.

This move by Russia to protect its children and young adults from succumbing to the false moral doctrines of the West was (of course) condemned by American rights group who warned that religious minorities might be prosecuted, with the irony being lost upon them that just 30 years ago these same groups were condemning the Soviet Union for not allowing any religion at all to be taught to the masses and have nothing to say at all about the destruction of religious teaching in their country at all. 

The most frightful part of this report, however, is contained in the section headed by the words “Nightmare Scenario” warning that with the Internet giant Google’s announcement this week of their “partnership” with the United States National Security Agency (NSA), and when combined with the coming US police forces new Internet system allowing “backdoor access” to American citizens private data (email, phone calls, websites visited, Internet purchases, etc.), their entire population will soon come under a “white space digital  blanket” so pervasive that nothing these “techno-slaves” can do will escape the notice of their new masters.

[Note: The term “white space” refers to the analog television airwaves the American people were forced by their government to abandon for it to be used to saturate their country with high-speed wireless Internet signals able to penetrate into their most rural regions and which (according to this report) when combined with the World's fastest graphene transistor created by IBM for the U.S. Defense Department's Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) will allow the tagging and monitoring of every single American citizen.] 

To the need of the elite classes in the United States to create these “techno-slaves” is evidenced by their entire national economy nearing its final collapse, and has become so dire that new reports are now showing that aside from the 20 million middle class Americans who have lost their homes, another 18 million are warned are nearing default this year. 

Even worse for these Americans is their also being warned that a complete national bankruptcy is upon them as during this coming year they must finance over $3.5 Trillion of short-term government debt (equal to nearly 30% of their entire Gross Domestic Product) that no other country in the World will buy and leading them to default and causing a catastrophic devaluing of their currency. 

To if the American people can awaken in time to avert their destruction there continues to be no evidence seen as they continue to remain enslaved to their propaganda media sources for information and which has essentially rendered them all incapable of understanding true things.

It was instructional though, for us this past week to read the rants of the US economist and New York University Professor Nouriel Roubini, who during an interview on the CNBC News Service stated that a “crisis” would be needed to change Russia’s economic system for the long term, and which gives a clear insight into how these Americans deal with complex issues rather than being honest with their peoples and working towards honest solutions….just create a crisis. 

And to the great crisis coming for these Americans they can never say that they weren’t warned, only that they didn’t believe.

FBI wants records kept of Web sites visited

Source: CNet



The FBI is pressing Internet service providers to record which Web sites customers visit and retain those logs for two years, a requirement that law enforcement believes could help it in investigations of child pornography and other serious crimes.






FBI Director Robert Mueller supports storing Internet users’ “origin and destination information,” a bureau attorney said at a federal task force meeting on Thursday.



As far back as a 2006 speech, Mueller had called for data retention on the part of Internet providers, and emphasized the point two years later when explicitly asking Congress to enact a law making it mandatory. But it had not been clear before that the FBI was asking companies to begin to keep logs of what Web sites are visited, which few if any currently do.


The FBI is not alone in renewing its push for data retention. As CNET reported earlier this week, a survey of state computer crime investigators found them to be nearly unanimous in supporting the idea. Matt Dunn, an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent in the Department of Homeland Security, also expressed support for the idea during the task force meeting.



Greg Motta, the chief of the FBI’s digital evidence section, said that the bureau was trying to preserve its existing ability to conduct criminal investigations. Federal regulations in place since at least 1986 require phone companies that offer toll service to “retain for a period of 18 months” records including “the name, address, and telephone number of the caller, telephone number called, date, time and length of the call.”



At Thursday’s meeting (PDF) of the Online Safety and Technology Working Group, which was created by Congress and organized by the U.S. Department of Commerce, Motta stressed that the bureau was not asking that content data, such as the text of e-mail messages, be retained.


“The question at least for the bureau has been about non-content transactional data to be preserved: transmission records, non-content records…addressing, routing, signaling of the communication,” Motta said. Director Mueller recognizes, he added “there’s going to be a balance of what industry can bear…He recommends origin and destination information for non-content data.”


Motta pointed to a 2006 resolution from the International Association of Chiefs of Police, which called for the “retention of customer subscriber information, and source and destination information for a minimum specified reasonable period of time so that it will be available to the law enforcement community.”



Recording what Web sites are visited, though, is likely to draw both practical and privacy objections.



“We’re not set up to keep URL information anywhere in the network,” said Drew Arena, Verizon’s vice president and associate general counsel for law enforcement compliance.


And, Arena added, “if you were do to deep packet inspection to see all the URLs, you would arguably violate the Wiretap Act.”



Another industry representative with knowledge of how Internet service providers work was unaware of any company keeping logs of what Web sites its customers visit.



If logs of Web sites visited began to be kept, they would be available only to local, state, and federal police with legal authorization such as a subpoena or search warrant.



What remains unclear are the details of what the FBI is proposing. The possibilities include requiring an Internet provider to log the Internet protocol (IP) address of a Web site visited, or the domain name such as cnet.com, a host name such as news.cnet.com, or the actual URL such as http://reviews.cnet.com/Music/2001-6450_7-0.html.



While the first three categories could be logged without doing deep packet inspection, the fourth category would require it. That could run up against opposition in Congress, which lambasted the concept in a series of hearings in 2008, causing the demise of a company, NebuAd, which pioneered it inside the United States.



The technical challenges also may be formidable. John Seiver, an attorney at Davis Wright Tremaine who represents cable providers, said one of his clients had experience with a law enforcement request that required the logging of outbound URLs.



“Eighteen million hits an hour would have to have been logged,” a staggering amount of data to sort through, Seiver said. The purpose of the FBI’s request was to identify visitors to two URLs, “to try to find out…who’s going to them.”



A Justice Department representative said the department does not have an official position on data retention.

Google Re-establishes Relationship With Government Spies

Search engine company has a history of involvement with intelligence agencies

Steve WatsonInfowars.net
Thursday, Feb 4th, 2010

Google is set to establish a working relationship with the National Security Agency, the government spy force responsible for warrantless monitoring of Americans’ phone calls and e-mails in the wake of 9/11.

The announcement comes in response to recent cyber attacks on the search engine company, which it says emanated from China.

Anonymous sources tell theWashington Post that “the alliance is being designed to allow the two organizations to share critical information”, adding that the agreement will not allow the NSA access to users’ search details or e-mails.

The sources also said that the NSA, the largest intelligence agency in the country, may also involve the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security in the project.

“The critical question is: At what level will the American public be comfortable with Google sharing information with NSA?” said Ellen McCarthy, president of the Intelligence and National Security Alliance, an organization of current and former intelligence and national security officials that seeks ways to foster greater sharing of information between government and industry.

Greg Nojeim, senior counsel for the Center for Democracy & Technology, a privacy advocacy group, told the Post that companies have statutory authority to share information with the government to protect their rights and property.

In 2008, Google denied that it had any role in the NSA’s “terrorist” surveillance program, after first refusing to say if they have provided users private data to the federal government under the warrantless wiretapping initiative.

However, it is clear where Google’s interests lie given that the company is supplying the software, hardware and tech support to US intelligence agencies in the process of creating a vast closed source database for global spy networks to share information.

The government supply arm of Google has also reportedly entered into a number of other contracts, details of which it says it cannot share.

Google’s partnership with the intelligence network is not new. As we reported in late 2006, An ex-CIA agent Robert David Steele has claimed sources told him that CIA seed money helped get the company off the ground

Speaking to the Alex Jones Show, Steele elaborated on previous revelations by making it known that the CIA helped bankroll Google at its very inception. Steele named Google’s CIA point man as Dr. Rick Steinheiser, of the Office of Research and Development.

“I think Google took money from the CIA when it was poor and it was starting up and unfortunately our system right now floods money into spying and other illegal and largely unethical activities, and it doesn’t fund what I call the open source world,” said Steele, citing “trusted individuals” as his sources for the claim.

“They’ve been together for quite a while,” added Steele.

Recent disclosures under the Freedom Of Information Act have also revealed that the federal government has several contracts with social media outlets, including Youtube which is owned by Google. The contracts are said to waive rules on monitoring users and permit companies to track visitors to government web sites for advertising purposes.

The NSA’s involvement with Google should be treated as highly suspect, given the agency’s recent track record and its blatant disregard for the Fourth Amendment.

A set of documents obtained by the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) in June 2007 showed that US telco AT&T allowed the NSA to set up a ’secret room’ in its offices to monitor internet traffic.

The discovering prompted a lawyer for an AT&T engineer to allege that “within two weeks of taking office, the Bush administration was planning a comprehensive effort of spying on Americans” That is BEFORE 9/11, before the nation was embroiled in the freedom stripping exercise commonly known as the “war on terror” had even begun.

In late 2007, reports circulated that the NSA has increasing control over SSL, now called Transport Layer Security, the cryptographic protocol that provides secure communications on the internet for web browsing, e-mail, instant messaging, and other data transfers.

In other words the agency is capable of intercepting and reading your emails and instant messages in real time. It is now beyond doubt that the NSA’s “terrorist surveillance program” now extends to this.

In 2008, the ACLU also uncovered details pertaining to a secret Justice Department memo from October 2001 that reveals the Bush administration effectively suspended the Fourth Amendment where domestic counter terrorism operations are concerned.

It is almost certain that the memo was written to provide a legal basis for the NSA to begin its warrantless wiretapping program, which was initiated in the same month.

Two years ago, the US National Intelligence Director Mike McConnell announced that plans were been drawn up for a cyberspace spying program that would make the current debate on warrantless wiretaps look like a “walk in the park”.

The plan involved giving the government the authority to examine the content of any e-mail, file transfer or Web search. The message is clear – government spies want unfettered access to the web searches and emails of Americans. Any relationship between the government and Google must be considered with this in mind.

After 9/11 the work of 16 different intelligence agencies, including the CIA and the giant National Security Agency, which eavesdrops on international communications, as well as the Energy Department and the Drug Enforcement Administration was centralized under the office of theDirector of National Intelligence.

Over decades we have witnessed the evolution of Government surveillance programs and information databases targeting citizens. We are now witnessing the centralization of this vast control grid Panopticon.

The latest marriage between Google and the intelligence community also comes in the wake of increased calls to introduce a global licensing system to police the Internet in the name of preventing cyber warfare.