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originally posted by: LOSTinAMERICA
I think our internet is going to go down. I don't think it'll be from the outside either. I can't shake the feeling that this was all a setup from the get go. Fat boy is going to take the blame if it does happen and the people will eat it up. Now, if it does happen, why?
I do reserve the right to be wrong. I am only human.
originally posted by: starwarsisreal
a reply to: daaskapital
What if someone is trying to start World War 3 between The US and North Korea? Makes a good plot line for a James Bond movie. I mean they have a scenario where a rogue Soviet General tried start World War 3 between the USSR and the US in the James Bond movie Octopussy.
originally posted by: LOSTinAMERICA
I think our internet is going to go down. I don't think it'll be from the outside either. I can't shake the feeling that this was all a setup from the get go. Fat boy is going to take the blame if it does happen and the people will eat it up. Now, if it does happen, why?
I do reserve the right to be wrong. I am only human.
"Usually there are isolated blips, not continuous connectivity problems. I wouldn't be surprised if they are absorbing some sort of attack presently," Doug Madory, director of Internet analysis at Dyn Research, said when the Internet was down.
If it is an attack, it's highly unlikely it's the United States. More likely it's a 15-year-old in a Guy Fawkes mask," he said.
originally posted by: ladyinwaiting
Didn't I read somewhere that they only have one ISP?
Looks like a machine gun being used, when a sling-shot would have done just fine. lol.
originally posted by: ladyinwaiting
Didn't I read somewhere that they only have one ISP?
Looks like a machine gun being used, when a sling-shot would have done just fine. lol.
originally posted by: HumanPLC
a reply to: homeslixe
I think that we are all doomed if WW3 is triggered by a Seth Rogan film
Wasnt his previous movie called "This Is the End", lol
originally posted by: Max_TO
Merry Christmas North Korea
Remember, the only reason you have the Internet is because the U.S allows it.
All the best in the New Year
Signed, your weekly grain donator
U.S.A
originally posted by: homeslixe
I think that we are all doomed if WW3 is triggered by a Seth Rogan film... though I was still thinking about that movie when I heard of this
This week, Norse executive Kurt Stammberger claimed that his firm had identified a woman called "Lena" associated with the GOP who worked for Sony in Los Angeles for a decade before leaving the company last year.
"This woman was in precisely the right position and had the deep technical background she would need to locate the specific servers that were compromised," Stammberger told CBS News.
He added that "there are certainly North Korean fingerprints on this but when we run all those leads to ground they turn out to be decoys or red herrings."
Update…
My friend who is a private IT professional who is also part of InfraGuard has confirmed that the "smart money" in cyber security is now also pointing toward an inside job in which North Korea was made to look like the instigator.
Obama ordered the Pentagon to make sure it advances in technology where important, Carter said, citing Special Operations, drone operations and cyber warfare as examples.
It’s not for nothing that Henry Kissinger has written in his new book that “cyberspace challenges all historical experience.” The preeminent realist of our era — even if he freely admits that he doesn’t know how the Internet works — fundamentally grasps the Internet as a tool of power. Cyberspace means that geopolitical rivals now have the ability “to access the cyber domain to disable and potentially destroy critical infrastructure from a position of near-complete anonymity.”
Of course, there are some who discount the threat of a cyber Pearl Harbor. They claim that it is overhyped, that it’s just a “myth” and that it’s just a way to sell more virus prevention software, or a way to shift private sector costs of defending computer networks on to the government sector. Fair enough. But, let’s face it, that’s probably the same type of thinking that made a Japanese attack 73 years ago seem so unlikely or a 9/11 attack seem unfathomable just 13 years ago. There are so many unknown unknowns that it’s easy just to assume the problem doesn’t exist.
There are, however, a number of ways that Congress might seek to aid us in our efforts. In particular, I would like to enumerate three concerns that new legislation or amendments to existing legislation could address that would strengthen our ability to combat cyber threats, as follows:
Updating the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act.
Data Breach Notifications.
Information Sharing.