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Topic started on 26-5-2005 @ 09:30 AM by Zipdot
The CIA has been conducting a three day long "war game" that will include mock assaults on the Internet infrastructures in the U.S. The most severe attacks will occur during the conclusion on Thursday afternoon.




www.msnbc.msn.com
The CIA is conducting a war game this week to simulate an unprecedented, Sept. 11-like electronic assault against the United States. The three-day exercise, known as "Silent Horizon," is meant to test the ability of government and industry to respond to escalating Internet disruptions over many months, according to participants.

The simulated attacks were carried out five years in the future by a fictional new alliance of anti-American organizations that included anti-globalization hackers. The most serious damage was expected to be inflicted in the closing hours of the war game Thursday.

An earlier cyberterrorism exercise called "Livewire" for the Homeland Security Department and other federal agencies concluded there were serious questions over government's role during a cyberattack depending on who was identified as the culprit _ terrorists, a foreign government or bored teenagers.



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The source articles mention "September 11-like attacks on the Internet" and "Internet attacks on the scale of the September 11 hijackings."

What?

I thought on 9/11, planes got highjacked and flown into buildings... That seems quite different from a hacker running some DOS script or whatever...

How effective can these sessions be? What will the CIA learn from these exercises? I think that for the most part they will be ineffective and CIA's money is better spent elsewhere. These don't really appear to me to be like "war games," as much as "playing pretend."

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