From: "judith loring" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Matthew Gaylor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Policing the Internet
Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2000 10:43:49 -0700
Dear List:
I'm not at all convinced that the DDOS attack was by hackers, etc.. Here's
another take on what the DDOD really might have been about. I found this
link:
http://cryptome.org/madsen-hmhd.htm
which included, in part, the following:
This radio program is highly indicative of the current hype surrounding the
Distributed Denial of Service (DDOS) attacks on DOT COM sites on the
Internet. Even the use of the acronym DDOS is amazing. Here they are,
twenty-something DOT COM executives, who probably never thought about
computer security except for watching re-runs of "Hackers" and "Sneakers,"
using Pentagon-originated terms like "Distributed Denial of Service"
attacks.
Why? Who told them to use those terms?
Then Clinton manages to take 90 minutes to attend an Internet security
summit on February 15. Northern Ireland's peace agreement is falling apart,
the Israeli-Palestine agreement is unraveling, and Russia's new President is
putting ex-KGB agents in his government, but Clinton has enough time to talk
with a group of e-commerce barons, computer security geeks, and even one
hacker. The whole thing appeared to be staged and scheduled way in advance.
The whole so-called Internet "hack" smells of a perception management
campaign by the intelligence community. Perhaps the system flooding was
coordinated by one group -- however, those types of attacks probably occur
on a daily basis without being reported by the world's media. It is
important to note that one of the key components of information warfare --
according to the Pentagon's own seminal documents -- is perception
management -- psychological operations to whip up public support for a
policy or program. The early Defense Science Board reports on Critical
Infrastructure Protection actually call for a campaign to change the
public's attitude about information system and network security.
The Pentagon is a master at deception campaigns aimed at the news media.
They constantly broadcast disinformation to television and radio audiences i
n Haiti, Serbia, Colombia, Mexico and elsewhere. They are now extending this
to cyber space. Critical infrastructure protection is a masterful ruse aimed
at creating the myth of impeding cyber-peril.
The major domo is a weird chap named Richard Clarke, a Dr. Strangelove-type
character who is Clinton's counter-terrorism czar. He always talks about
defensive cyber-warfare but clams up when it comes to offensive US
cyber-operations. That is classified.
However, it is certain that the US Government has already done more to
disrupt the Internet than any other actor -- state-sponsored or freelance.
For the past few years, US government hackers have penetrated networks at
the European Parliament, Australian Stock Exchange, and banks in Athens,
Nicosia, Moscow, Johannesburg, Beirut, Tel Aviv, Zurich, and Vaduz. The US
also engaged in network penetrations in Yugoslavia during the NATO war
against that country.
Why doesn't NPR, CBS, ABC, NBC and the others focus on what the US is doing
to disrupt the Internet? They are instead falling into a familiar Pentagon
trap of deception and diversion.
Judith Loring
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