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U.S. Must Consider Impact Of ‘Militarization’ Of Cyberspace
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Kelly Jackson Higgins
DarkReading
February 19, 2009
WASHINGTON — BLACK HAT DC — The United States is unprepared to respond to a cyber-Katrina or cyberwarfare attack and must consider three hot-button issues as the new administration formulates its cybersecurity strategy: the role of the intelligence community, cyberweapons deployment, and who should be in charge of the nation’s response to a cyberattack, said cybersecurity and homeland security expert Paul Kurtz today during his keynote address here at Black Hat DC.
Kurtz, who worked on the Obama transition team but is not part of the new administration, had been mentioned as a front-runner for a possible cybersecurity czar position in the administration. Kurtz emphasized that he was not speaking on behalf of the administration here, and he would not discuss what recommendations he has given President Obama and his team.
"Who is in charge [in the event of] a cyber-Katrina?" said Kurtz, who served on homeland security councils for both the Clinton and Bush administrations and is now a security consultant with Good Harbor. "Is it the FCC? DHS? Commerce? The White House? No one has an answer to that, and that’s pretty darn scary."
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As the new administration fleshes out its policies for cybersecurity, the industry should consider a topic that historically has been "a little taboo." he says: "The militarization of cyberspace."
The administration is currently conducting a 60-day review of the nation’s cybersecurity, under the leadership of Melissa Hathaway, who helped craft former president George W. Bush’s cyberdefense plan.
Kurtz said the key to fighting cyberattacks is fusing intelligence data with information gathered by law enforcement and industry security experts. "We’re not connecting the dots," he said. "I would argue that the NSA does have a very important role [in this]," he says.
But that would obviously entail the proper congressional oversight of the intelligence agencies, he said. "The information generated through commercial [entities today] is not synthesized with intelligence’s information for a truly synoptic picture of where the attacks are coming from," Kurtz said. "It has been ad hoc at best."
Who would be in charge of this coordinated effort? It could be headed by a sort of national counter-terrorism center for cyberspace, which would facilitate the process but not replace security companies’ research efforts in cybercrime, he said.
Kurtz says cyberweapons require a deterrence policy, and to successfully deter an attack, you first need a capability to trace the origin of the attack. "I would argue that we need an active capability to trace back attacks," which requires the collaboration among industry, law enforcement, and the intelligence community, he said. Then cyberweapons can be developed and potentially used to "suppress the use of kinetic weaponry."
"That makes the physical battle less important. We haven’t had this discussion to date," he said. And the U.S. cannot go it alone, either, he added.
If the U.S. cyberinfrastructure were to be attacked or knocked offline today, there is no structure in place to get it back online, he said. "Is there a FEMA for the Internet? I don’t think so," Kurtz said.
Kurtz said he posed these traditionally taboo topics today to generate some public debate. "The presidential review should look at these issues]," he said. "We need to have more public discourse about this…We need to start moving."
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February 19th, 2009 at 2:31 pm
The answer to everything is more military, more power , more abuse and more gov…what is in our water ? have people gone crazy?
stevo Reply:
February 20th, 2009 at 4:10 am
flouride, flouride, flouride, flouride and more flouride….
Oh yeah, and shit loads of Barium and Aluminium from the chem-trails….
Zyclone B will be next I bet
Why didn;t they just do this in the first place and get it over with (Oh yeah, too many of us….Suck on that Bill and Melinda Gates (Eugenics Inc) or Micro-soft-kill 
People are going crazy alright, its called brain plaques and their caused by the toxic waste that the elites are dumping in the water supply. Short answer – stop drinking tap/bottled water and get a bloody reverse osmosis or equivalent filtration system. You’ll never feel better than when you stop drinking and showering in scheme water – believe me I know!!!
ZERO Reply:
February 20th, 2009 at 5:49 am
dont forget more printing of money
ScrewyLogic Reply:
February 20th, 2009 at 3:56 pm
Yes.
Check out this CRAZY wording:
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“The information generated through commercial [entities today] is not synthesized with intelligence’s information for a truly synoptic picture of where the attacks are coming from,” Kurtz said. “It has been ad hoc at best.”
February 19th, 2009 at 2:39 pm
It’s called mind control. We get it through the TV, cell phones and just about every other form ‘they’ can think of. Look at the police, They get it all day long from the microwave transmissions in and out of the station, then when they’re off duty, they get it through the TV at home. Hate, hate, hate, kill, kill, kill, taser,taser,taser, beat, beat, beat, kick, kick, kick, arrest, arrest, arrest, enemy, enemy, enemy, terrorist, terrorist, terrorist.
February 19th, 2009 at 2:49 pm
I’m am f’ing sick of these monsters in gov’t stealing everything we have and their NAZI enforcers and cameras everywhere.
Elites are the most vile of criminals since they constantly are shitting fear all over us. I was in the military for 18 years and I never saw a terroist except in Washington D. C. (District of Criminals). They plan to murder us with bio weapons and gov’t required vaccinations and also murder us by the fact that we are requiring huge amounts of ant-acids to calm our stomachs down from their F’ing lies.
Alex is right, as the our treasury (which no longer exists) was robbed by these guys and now that we are figuring it out, since we can’t retire or feed our families, they are saying hands up and drop your weapons.
stevo Reply:
February 20th, 2009 at 4:05 am
Too bad for them that the American people have more arms now than ever!!!!
Smoke on freedom Elitist Puppet Scum……You’re going down real, real, real soon…..Can’t wait.
February 19th, 2009 at 3:20 pm
REPENT.UNITE.RESIST.
February 19th, 2009 at 3:23 pm
This is non-sense, network backbone operators are perfectly equipped to deal with attacks already. The only attacks we aren’t equipped to deal with are attacks from our own government in the form of regulation.
stevo Reply:
February 20th, 2009 at 4:03 am
Well said!!!
ZoneAlarm :-/ Reply:
February 20th, 2009 at 4:06 pm
Indeed.
# /sbin/iptables -I INPUT 1 –src $GOVERNMENT
# /sbin/iptables -I OUTPUT 1 –src $GOVERNMENT
Utter Nonsense.
BTW,
# GOVERNMENT=$GOVERNMENT,$CORPORATIONS
ZoneAlarm :-/ Reply:
February 20th, 2009 at 4:08 pm
-J DROP
(oops)
since been watchin, since been watchin, since been watchin, Reply:
February 20th, 2009 at 4:09 pm
what watches watchers?
February 19th, 2009 at 4:15 pm
When they’ll declare war on shadows , that will be the time to try to take over the whole nine
yards , lock , stock n’ barrel !!! I think they’re ready soon !!!
February 19th, 2009 at 4:17 pm
praised the king of babylon ..OBAMA
February 19th, 2009 at 7:05 pm
damn and I’m just learning how to use the computer” THATS JUST GREAT” ” THANKS ALOT”……………you nwo trash basturds… The time is getting very close —- just look @ all the states about to bail out of the republic ? Only if they stick to there GUNS ummmmmmmmm GUNS#$%%!@!$#!~
laura brown Reply:
February 20th, 2009 at 12:31 am
AMEN BROTHER!!!! NO NWO PERIOD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! NEVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
February 19th, 2009 at 7:34 pm
Cyberweapons= A computer virus.
hmmm. would one of these designate between a computer owned by a “terrorist” or one owned by old Grandma Mabel who uses the computer to keep in touch with her grand kids.
Methinks not.
February 19th, 2009 at 8:21 pm
I agree with JAZ, more definitions. Wouldn’t you LOVE to see the training manual for the enforcers against cyber-terrorism? What is the profile of a cyber-terrorist, anyone who passes out 911 truth propaganda over the web? Anyone who is pro 2nd amendment? Anyone who speaks ill of the U.S. “dollar”? In that case, the whole lot of ya are probably cyber-terrorists!
February 19th, 2009 at 10:12 pm
“Then cyberweapons can be developed and potentially used”
so they’ll just make it less safe by making cyber weaponry?
surprise surprise.
February 19th, 2009 at 10:50 pm
Make your own fliers and spread the word! Here is my flier and I put them on cars, in books, at college campuses, magazines, every!!!!!! It works!!!!!!!!!!
Care about the loss of your constitution and know what your government is up to!
Watch these videos (youtube) and spread the word
Eisenhower warns us of the military industrial complex
JFK Blows The Whistle on Secret Societies!
America freedom to fascism Clinton Chronicles Patriotism by Ron Paul
Loose change 9-11 Alex Jones / Dark Secret Inside the Bohemian Grove Part 1
Bilderberg exposed – Part 1/6 Blackwater: Shadow Army The Truth & Lies of 9/11
We Are Change Interviews 9/11 Whistleblower part 1 of 6
Exposing the Illuminati from Within Part 1
Those who gave their lives for these stories deserve to be heard!
February 19th, 2009 at 11:35 pm
Loose lips sink ships. Either this is co intell or we is dumb for letting our enemies know our weak spots.
ScrewyLogic Reply:
February 20th, 2009 at 3:57 pm
You’re upside-down.
This is PROPAGANDA, designed to achieve a motive.
February 19th, 2009 at 11:43 pm
JD is right. “The information generated through commercial [entities today] is not synthesized with intelligence’s information for a truly synoptic picture of where the attacks are coming from,” Kurtz said. “It has been ad hoc at best.”
I work in NetOps, this is the dumbest thing I’ve ever heard anyone say. Open source wrote the book on this sh!t, Not the .gov. They just cant admit we’re getting our ass handed to us by the hackers. Long live Freedom
ScrewyLogic Reply:
February 20th, 2009 at 4:00 pm
It’s more than that. read it again:
“The information generated through commercial [entities today] is not synthesized with intelligence’s information for a truly synoptic picture of where the attacks are coming from,” Kurtz said. “It has been ad hoc at best.”
What do you see?
I see: An admission, A disingenuous assertion, A double-entrendre, A misdirection, A dead give-awaay, A carefully-chosen word, Vague imagery, and a ‘Modal Violation’ (in that order.)
February 20th, 2009 at 12:26 am
They’re fucking idiots for relying on cyber anything!
February 20th, 2009 at 4:01 am
Here we go………..was wondering when the Cyber-Red-Herring would swim into the NWO pond.
Maybe the CIA can start a alCIAda Cyber Terrorist group and arm them with an invisible ICBM – Islamic-Cyber-Boogey-Man.
Then they can terrorize the world by threatening to attack servers, and slowly but surely stage a Cyber911 and blame it on the invisible ‘cyber-terrorists’.
By bringing up these issues right now it is quite obvious that they are setting a precedent for a real and long-time-planned cyber attack which will severely damage WWW1. Just like the Bin Laden threat video tapes that were released right before 911.
Oh, and strangely but surely they will have WWW2 up and running just in time to switch every world user over onto the censored web whilst sinking the free web in the deep sea of 1’s and 0’s.
Obama is a WWW – Web Wrecking Whore!!!
That’s right mate, UR SCUM… You probably don’t even know how to use a computer ya brown shirt fascist. YOU’LL GET YOURS!!
February 20th, 2009 at 6:05 am
It just a series of tubes and stuff. What’s the problem? Oh, and Al Gore invented it.
ScrewyLogic Reply:
February 20th, 2009 at 4:01 pm
It’s not a big truck.
February 20th, 2009 at 8:43 am
sounds like a subtle threat to the pirating community to me. Stupid fucking assholes. Oh well.
February 20th, 2009 at 9:24 am
All the psyco’s at the helm are insane we don’t need anything we have NORAD to protect the US all of you go home enjoy yourself there is no terrorism if government doesn;t sponsor any all the invasions were ACTS OF TREASON thats why the US CITIZENS hates government they created a bad name for theirselves in the past 50Years!
February 20th, 2009 at 12:12 pm
you feel as if something is wrong. due to the technical nature, you cannot express your feeling in a rational way. you do not know how to cry for help or associate with others for this purpose. you will adjust to our presence and learn to tolerate our encroachment on your lives. it is true and factual. we apologize to the innocent and young. this must occur according to OUR law. our time is now. please accept our apology for this minor inconvenience. it is for the betterment of mankind, thank you.
ScrewyLogic Reply:
February 20th, 2009 at 4:02 pm
your welcome. fuck off.
February 21st, 2009 at 10:20 pm
Compliments of Apple,
Your on candid camera. In the privacy of your bedroom/home.
http://www.engadget.com/2006/0...../#comments
February 22nd, 2009 at 3:16 am
the internet root servers are owned mostly by the military anyway – see – and yes I blocked the ips out to those Servers – I don’t know if it did anything or not, however I just want to be sure…I did it at router level and soon i’ll do it on my laptop…
anyway here’s the link: (scroll down to the bottom) – http://www.root-servers.org/
February 22nd, 2009 at 3:17 am
the internet root servers are owned mostly by the military anyway – see – and yes I blocked the ips out to those Servers – I don’t know if it did anything or not, however I just want to be sure…I did it at router level and soon i’ll do it on my laptop…
anyway here’s the link: (scroll down to the bottom) – http://www.root-servers.org/
February 22nd, 2009 at 8:41 pm
That was always the best part of the movie, ” 2001 A Space Odyssey ”
when HAL the computer voice said: ” I’m Sorry Dave, I cannot do that ”
Dave: “Open the Pod Bay Door’s HAL” HAL: “I’m Sorry Dave, I cannot do that”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uU4TQ1NTo50
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