On Tue, 6 May 2008 18:59:38 -0700 (PDT), kT wrote:

> 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 ¡X 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" ¡X even "cyber
>> cafes" and "personal digital assistances [sic]." the proposal states.
>>
>> A previous notice outlined that the NCR would allow the Pentagon to:
>>
>> ¡E Conduct unbiased, quantitative and qualitative assessment of
>> information assurance and survivability tools in a representative
>> network environment.
>> ¡E Replicate complex, large-scale, heterogeneous networks and users
>> in current and future Department of Defense (DoD) weapon systems and
>> operations.
>> ¡E Enable multiple, independent, simultaneous experiments on the
>> same infrastructure.
>> ¡E Enable realistic testing of Internet/Global-Information-Grid
>> (GIG) scale research.
>> ¡E Develop and deploy revolutionary cyber testing capabilities.
>> ¡E 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. [¡K]
>>
>> 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 bastard 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¡K.. 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: ¡K A robust offensive suite of capabilities to
>> include full-range electronic and computer network attack¡K" - 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¡K 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.
>
> Ha haha hahhahaha hahahah ahhahah ... fucking rubes.
>
> They're already doing it, haven't you noticed the variable time lags?

My advice to Americans who spy for the Bush admin on their citinzenry is:
update your resumes.

Using a computer to commit crimes is fine with bUShco. They're a criminal
regime.

When dems take back the white house we won't need manufactured consent.
--
Ron Ford