Other versions of the press release are fairly amusing, and can be
paraphrased as follows:
"Imagining a world where most nations are allied against the United States,
the CIA is currently..."
-TD
From: Eugen Leitl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: /. [CIA's Info Ops Team Hosts 3-Day Cyber Wargame]
Date: Thu, 26 May 2005 13:18:28 +0200
Link: http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/05/26/044209
Posted by: samzenpus, on 2005-05-26 06:03:00
from the do-you-want-to-play-a-game dept.
ScentCone writes "The CIA has booked some conference rooms and is
[1]working through a simulated 'digital Pearl Harbor' to see how
government and industry handle a monster net attack from an imaginary
future foe composed of anti-American and anti-globalization hackers.
Having been accused of lacking imagination about potential terror
attacks, they're using the exercise to better shape the government's
roles in a variety of attack scenarios. The networking industry, it
seems, is expected to always play a big part in detecting and
thwarting such threats, as 9/11-scale economic disruption is a likely
bad-guy objective."
References
1. http://apnews.myway.com/article/20050525/D8AAFUIO2.html
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