Strong Angel III
February 8th, 2007I started poking around to see if I could find any indication of the military response to the events of a couple of days ago involving the root DNS nodes. There is, without a doubt, a military response. Of course, who actually did the thing vs. who gets guns pointed at their heads are really two different matters.
While I didn’t find any information on how the military is reacting to this incident, Graham Cluley, senior technology consultant at security firm Sophos, set the appropriate tone when he said, “The criminals are asking for trouble; it’s like trying to steal a salmon from a grizzly bear. I wouldn’t want to be in the bad guys’ shoes right now.”
Anyway, along my meanderings, I ran across something that some of you might find interesting, especially if you like to think in terms of, “This is how the world ends, not with a bang, but with _______ .” <--- Fill in the blank. Remember the "Possible Terrorist Scenario" from my five year old, informal essay on cyberwar?
The folks running the Strong Angel “disaster laboratory” added a pandemic twist to my little nightmare scenario. With the trial balloons already floating out of the UK re: the avian flu nonsense and attacks on the root DNS nodes in mind, spend some time checking out the Strong Angel III exercise.
Via: Strong Angel III:
THE SCENARIO
A Complex Contingency: A lethal and highly-contagious virus gradually begins to spread around the globe. Infection rates are high, deaths are frequent, and no vaccine is available. Cities all over the world fall under quarantine. Emergency services and medical centers are stressed and national government agencies, affected just as severely as the cities themselves, cannot provide assistance. And then the situation goes from bad to worse.
A terrorist cell, having long waited for such an opportunity, launches a wave of successful cyber attacks in a medium size city somewhere in the developed world, bringing down grid power, Internet access, land and cellular telephones. Other, more subtle, attacks follow, and it’s difficult to sort out the mess.
If there were ever a time to work effectively together, this would be it.
Recognizing that a comparable scenario might one day unfold in real life, a diverse group of disaster responders, technologists, and community leaders will assemble in San Diego in August of 2006 for an event designed to simulate a truly complex disaster. Over the course of seven days, on the grounds of the San Diego Fire Training Academy, the campus of San Diego State University, and in the streets of the city, we will explore techniques and technologies for responding effectively when the response itself must adapt to cascading losses. By demonstrating what is possible through public and private-sector partnerships within a community, we intend to develop approaches to cultivating local resilience that may be useful for any city, here or abroad.
Related: Simulated Catastrophe Focuses on Tools to Create Order From Chaos <--- That's actually the title of this article, believe it or not.
Sounds like SKYNET from Terminator III. As soon as it becomes self aware we are all Fu@k#d!
This is how the public is softened up for the hit.
1: First, hit the mindless masses with a TV show on 5/9/2006 showing economic collapse after massive bird flu deaths.
“Fatal Contact: Bird Flu In America ”
http://www.metacritic.com/tv/shows/fatalcontactbirdfluinamerica
2. Then bring in the NY Times to hit the self-declared intellectuals with the earnest facts. Feb 1, 2007
“In a Daylong Drill, an Agency Tries to Prepare for a Real Outbreak of Avian Flu
This was the C.D.C.’s first “full functional†avian flu exercise, meaning that virtually everyone at its headquarters here was involved in some way, including about 100 people packing the operations center, where banks of computers and phones faced a wall full of television screens.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/01/health/01flu.html?ex=1171170000&en=5cd9d7d58feef27e&ei=5070
The same thing happened with The Lone Gunman TV show on March 4, 2001, about 6 months before 9/11.
http://www.prisonplanet.com/The_Lone_Gunmen_Realm_Pilot_Episode.htm
That was why I always assumed 6 months after 5/6/2006 to be the time frame for Bird Flu attack, but that about 3 months early. I guess these things are not set in stone. 😉
This would be the perfect cover for the collapse of the Fed’s credit bubble. Everyone will be so dazed from not being able to afford their daily Starbuck’s they won’t even notice us lighting up Iran.
3. Then to take down the internet so the people will have to rely on TV and Newspapers to get the massaged story, a little help from companies like Checkpoint should be all it takes.
“Now, in a chilling real life version of the plotline from “The Net”, it turns out that the majority of the firewalls on US corporate and government computer systems are provided by just one company, Checkpoint Systems, which like Amdocs, Comverse Infosys, and Odigo, is headquartered in Israel.”
http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/spyring.html
Kevin, I think you have hit the jackpot here.
When the Iran “thing” goes down, look for the “bird flu” outbreak to happen at about the same time. Not based on any inside information, just the observation that the SARS hype was pitched right as the 2003 Iraq invasion began. Perhaps it will be another new one, such as BURBS (Bizzare Unpredictable Rectal Bleeding Syndrone).