On May 6, 6:22 pm, AirRaid <airraidfigh...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Pentagon Secretly Goes To War With The Internet
>
> Steve Watson
> Infowars.net
> Tuesday, May 6, 2008
>
> The Pentagon is to spend $30 Billion building a super secret "National
> Cyber Range" in order to prepare for all out cyber warfare by using it
> to conduct mock online battles with realistic info-warriors.
>
> The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), previously
> responsible for the development of electronic surveillance programs
> such as Total Information Awareness and MATRIX, LifeLog and the Brain
> Machine Interfaces enterprise, has been ordered by Congress to create
> what is essentially a new internet as a cyberspace battleground.
>
> Wired.com has reported "According to a defense official familiar with
> the program: ‘Congress has given DARPA a direct order; that’s only
> happened once before — with the Sputnik program in the ’50s’"
>
> The NCR will not only allow for defense from electronic attack, but
> will also allow offensive strikes against "adversaries online". It is
> rumored to be the keystone of a so called "Comprehensive National
> Cybersecurity Initiative", created via a secret presidential order in
> January.
>
> A request for proposals, released by DARPA yesterday outlined how the
> agency wants the NCR to be able to "realistically replicate human
> behavior and frailties," and feature "realistic, sophisticated, nation-
> state quality offensive and defensive opposition forces".
>
> The NCR’s operators should be able to "integrate, replicate, or
> simulate" military satellite and digital radio communications, mobile
> ad-hoc networks, physical access control systems, U.S. and foreign
> "unmanned aerial vehicles, weapons, [and] radar systems" — even "cyber
> cafes" and "personal digital assistances [sic]." the proposal states.
>
> A previous notice outlined that the NCR would allow the Pentagon to:
>
> • Conduct unbiased, quantitative and qualitative assessment of
> information assurance and survivability tools in a representative
> network environment.
> • Replicate complex, large-scale, heterogeneous networks and users
> in current and future Department of Defense (DoD) weapon systems and
> operations.
> • Enable multiple, independent, simultaneous experiments on the
> same infrastructure.
> • Enable realistic testing of Internet/Global-Information-Grid
> (GIG) scale research.
> • Develop and deploy revolutionary cyber testing capabilities.
> • Enable the use of the scientific method for rigorous cyber
> testing.
>
> The project is so secret that it has been referred to as an
> electronic"Manhattan Project". The Senate Homeland Security committee,
> a key Senate oversight panel has cited concerns about the secrecy
> around the project and has been forced to write to the DHS to request
> basic information on the project.
>
> Commentators have speculated that the entire project may be a huge new
> part of the federal government’s so called "terrorist surveillance
> program", which has so far only been shown to constitute cyberwarfare
> against everyday Americans via warrantless wiretapping and
> interception of communications.
>
> Wired.com comments:
>
> "Why might citizens be worried about privacy and civil liberties?
> Consider that the whole initiative appears to have been launched after
> the Director of National Intelligence told the President Bush that a
> cyber attack might wreak as much economic havoc as 9/11 did. Consider
> that the NSA, which currently protects classified networks, wants to
> expand into protecting all non-classified federal government networks.
> Consider that Congress is set to legalize the NSA’s monitoring rooms
> in the nation’s phone and internet infrastructure. For its part, the
> FBI says it also needs access to the internet’s backbone, while the
> Air Force is hyping its own efforts at cyber defense and offense. […]
>
> Now it seems the only question is whether the government will be
> able to turn the net into a controllable, monitorable and trackable
> pre-internet AOL-type service or whether the chaotic net will live on
> as just another frontier for the military-industrial complex to start
> an arm’s race and rake in billions of government dollars."
>
> Could this be the Pentagon’s ultimate "solution" to counter the
> internet, an arena of freedom and progress that military strategists
> now view as a ******* child they let slip from their grasp some twenty
> or so years ago?
>
> While Homeland Security head Chertoff has denied that the project is
> part of a vast effort to restrict or "sit on the internet", the
> Pentagon has previously made it clear that the internet, free of
> restriction and holding such potential for free speech, is in direct
> opposition to their goals.
>
> The Pentagon has stressed that the internet needs to be dealt with as
> if it were an enemy "weapons system".
>
> Recently, a document entitled Information Operation Roadmap (PDF) was
> declassified by the Pentagon due to a Freedom of Information Act
> request by the National Security Archive at George Washington
> University.
>
> One portion of the document states:
>
> “Information, always important in warfare, is now critical to
> military success and will only become more so in the foreseeable
> future….. Information operations should be centralized under the
> Office of the Secretary of Defence and made a core military
> competency."
>
> "Objective: IO [information operations] becomes a core competency.
> The importance of dominating the information spectrum explains the
> objective of transforming IO into a core military competency on a par
> with air, ground, maritime and special operations. The charge to the
> IO Roadmap oversight panel was to develop as concrete a set of action
> recommendations as possible to make IO a core competency, which in
> turn required identifying the essential prerequisites to become a core
> military competency."
>
> Another section of the document focuses on what is referred to as
> "Computer Network Attack":
>
> "When implemented the recommendations of this report will
> effectively jumpstart a rapid improvement of CNA [Computer Network
> Attack] capability." - 7
>
> "Enhanced IO [information operations] capabilities for the
> warfighter, including: … A robust offensive suite of capabilities to
> include full-range electronic and computer network attack…" - 7
>
> While other sections urge the Department of Defense to "Fight the
> Net":
>
> "We Must Fight the Net. DoD [Department of Defense] is building an
> information-centric force. Networks are increasingly the operational
> center of gravity, and the Department must be prepared to "fight the
> net." " - 6
>
> "DoD’s "Defense in Depth" strategy should operate on the premise
> that the Department will "fight the net" as it would a weapons
> system." - 13
>
> A previous document that echoes such sentiments is the now infamous
> Rebuilding America’s Defences by The Project for a New American
> Century (PNAC). In this 2000 document those that would go on to become
> the nucleus of the Bush administration stated:
>
> "It is now commonly understood that information and other new
> technologies… are creating a dynamic that may threaten America’s
> ability to exercise its dominant military power." - 4
>
> "Control of space and cyberspace. Much as control of the high seas
> - and the protection of international commerce - defined global powers
> in the past, so will control of the new "international commons" be a
> key to world power in the future. An America incapable of protecting
> its interests or that of its allies in space or the "infosphere" will
> find it difficult to exert global political leadership." - 51
>
> "Although it may take several decades for the process of
> transformation to unfold, in time, the art of warfare on air, land,
> and sea will be vastly different than it is today, and "combat" likely
> will take place in new dimensions: in space, "cyber-space," and
> perhaps the world of microbes." - 60
>
> The importance of information warfare is clearly laid out in both
> these documents. Brent Jessop, a regular contributor to Infowars.net
> and Prisonplanet.com has exhaustively documented the phenomenon of
> “Full Spectrum Information Warfare” in a four part series of articles.
>
> We have also previously documented the existing moves to kill off the
> internet as we know it today by the federal government.
>
> Note that the enemy is never specifically named, it is merely whoever
> uses the net, because the enemy IS the net. The enemy is the freedom
> the net provides to billions around the globe and the threat to
> militaristic dominance of information and the ultimate power that
> affords.
>
> http://www.infowars.com/?p=1965
In other words, YOU are the enemy.
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They're already doing it, haven't you noticed the variable time lags?
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