The story that's intriguing is that the cyber-attacks are the work of the dark side of NSA, the ones opposed to the new DIRNSA's housecleaning and deadwood chopping. A warning No. 3 after the brownout of the intel sat receiving stations (No. 1) and the computer meltdown (No. 2). Civilians Barbara McNamara and cohorts are reputed to be mean motherfuckers and believe military brass are pussies who don't know shit about black art technology, just strategizing big tin toys, warlording, armaments ballooning and standoff bluff-nuking tape-vermiforms. Somebody wrote a few months ago: in three months only one will be still at NSA, McNamara or Layton. Would the old guard take the Net down in a us or them suicide? Probably not, the newly recruited hackers won't give them access. Like that great LA Times cartoon last week, showing NSA timeservers wrapped in tape reels and manning obsolete Osborne, Wang and Digital boxes, an investigator of sloth saying, "Time to reorganize this place, round up the usual Chinese suspects." In the present instance, "hackers v. hackers."
