Sunday, February 12, 2006

Evil Blogs To Be Attacked By White House?

ABC News: U.S. Concludes 'Cyber Storm' Mock Attacks: "U.S. Concludes 'Cyber Storm' Mock Attacks
U.S. Government Concludes 'Cyber Storm' Internet Wargame, Biggest-Ever Attack Test Response
By TED BRIDIS
The Associated Press

WASHINGTON - The government concluded its 'Cyber Storm' wargame Friday, its biggest-ever exercise to test how it would respond to devastating attacks over the Internet from anti-globalization activists, underground hackers and bloggers.

Bloggers?

Participants confirmed parts of the worldwide simulation challenged government officials and industry executives to respond to deliberate misinformation campaigns and activist calls by Internet bloggers, online diarists whose 'Web logs' include political rantings and musings about current events.

The Internet survived, even against fictional abuses against the world's computers on a scale typical for Fox's popular '24' television series. Experts depicted hackers who shut down electricity in 10 states, failures in vital systems for online banking and retail sales, infected discs mistakenly distributed by commercial software companies and critical flaws discovered in core Internet technology."

Blogs? Blogs? Hard to imagine how I could be threat to national security, unless I can incite both of my readers to form terrorist cells and begin printing pamphlets like old Tom Paine.

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