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Cofer Black Says Threat Posed by Hackers Same as Pre-9/11 Terrorism

Public Intelligence Net, 4 August 2011

not to be confused with Phi Beta Iota the Public Intelligence Blog

Ex-CIA official sounds alarm about hackers’ next targets (CNN):

The former director of the CIA’s Counterterrorism Center raised concerns Wednesday about an impending “code war” in which hackers will tamper not just with the Internet but with technology that runs real-world infrastructure.

Somewhat fittingly, Cofer Black’s keynote talk at the Black Hat hacker conference at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas was interrupted by a literal alarm: flashing lights, sirens and the whole bit.

“Attention, please. Attention, please,” a robotic woman’s voice said repeatedly as Black smiled, apparently confused. “We are currently investigating the alarm signal you are hearing. Please remain calm.”

After a pause and some laughs from the audience, Black kept going.

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Phi Beta Iota:  He does not seem to realize he was put on the program as an inside joke, or that we all knew in 1990-1994 that cyber-space was going to be the next combat zone.  What Mr. Black does not appear to understand, is that hackers are the good guys, while politicians, bureaucrats, and vendors who routinely betray the public trust are the bad guys.  He is out of touch with both history and reality.   He lives in a world of lies, not the world of truth.  Only in the world of truth can problems be fully understood and intelligently addressed.  Here above the line are one simple graphic and the most recent exposure of the cyber-scam that is on-going between ignorant Contracting Officers and equally ignorant vendors.  Below the line are more references.

Graphic: Cyber-Threat 101

2010: OPINION–America’s Cyber Scam

2010 Hacking Humanity & SPY IMPROV, Email, Photos, Complete Audio

21.3% of Malicious ‘Spam’ Researched by Symantec comes from Shaoxing China (30% China, 21.1% from Romania, US 3rd)

Anthropology of Hacking

DefDog: Cyber-Command Can’t Find Ball…

DefDog: US Army Blows Intelligence Computing (Again)…

Hackers target NASDAQ Site

Internet and Revolution–Three Insights

Journal: Army Industrial-Era Network Security + Cyber-Security RECAP (Links to Past Posts)

Journal: Climate Change and “Hacktivism”

Journal: Cyber-Security Etc. & Multinational Engagement

Journal: Cyber-Security or Cyber-Scam? Plus Short List of Links to Reviews and Books on Hacking 101

Journal: Cyber-War, Cyber-Peace, Cyber-Scam

Journal: DARPA Catches Up with 1994

Journal: Drones versus Pioneers–Defining the Finish Line

Journal: German Hackers Point to 9-11 Text Messages

Journal: Google digital evil or digital child?

Journal: Microsoft, Cyber-Security, Syllable, & Integrity

Journal: Microsoft, Kinect, & Hackers

Journal: Pentagon as VERY Slow Learner….

Journal: Pentagon Flails in Defending Cyberspace

Journal: Tyranny Looms Large–First the Internet, then the Guns, then Liberty Lost

Journal: Web War II

Journal: Who Controls (and Secures) the Internet?

OpenMoko, OpenBTS, Free Your Phone & Humanity

Profiling Hackers (or Attackers?)…Further Blurring of lines Between Crime & Hacking

Reference: Are Hackers Pioneers with the Right Stuff or Criminal Pathological Scum? Mitch Kabay Reprises

Reference: Bruce Schneier on Cyber War & Cyber Crime

Reference: Hacking Humanity & Open Everything

Reference: How Web-Code Geeks Help NGO’s and Media

Reference: Lee Felsenstein & Dave Warner Converse

Reference: List of Hacker Spaces World-Wide

Reference: Transparency Killer App Plus “Open Everything” RECAP (Back to 01/2007)

Review (DVD): The Social Network

Review: Counterculture Through the Ages–From Abraham to Acid House

Review: CYBERPUNK–Outlaws and Hackers on the Computer Frontier, Revised

Review: Cybershock–Surviving Hackers, Phreakers, Identity Thieves, Internet Terrorists and Weapons of Mass Disruption

Review: Dear Hacker–Letters to the Editor of 2600

Review: Free Software, Free Society–Selected Essays of Richard M. Stallman (Hardcover)

Review: Hackers–Heroes of the Computer Revolution

Review: INFORMATION WARFARE–Chaos on the Electronic Superhighway

Review: Masters of Deception–The Gang That Ruled Cyberspace

Review: Networks and Netwars–The Future of Terror, Crime, and Militancy

Review: Pearl Harbor Dot Com

Review: Stealing the Network–How to Own a Continent

Review: Terminal Compromise

Review: The Best of 2600–A Hacker Odyssey

Review: The Hacker Crackdown–Law And Disorder On The Electronic Frontier

Review: The Second Self–Computers and the Human Spirit

Robert Steele: Secrecy, Self-Restraint, & Democracy Done in By Elites and “Experts”

Search: cybersecurity 1994

Search: Steele USMC C4I 1990′s

Search: smart nation intelligence reform electoral reform national security reform

The Emergent Open Source Revolution

WikiLeaks Mindset Growing Far & Wide

Worth a Look: Book Reviews on Communications & Computing

Deja Vu (Been There, Done That)

1986 Artificial Intelligence and Complex Organizations

1987 Thesis: National Security C3I3H3–Command, Communications, & Computing, Inter-Agency, Inter-Disciplinary, Inter-Operability, Heuristics of the Community Intelligence Cycle

1992 USNI Proceedings C4I The New Linchpin

1992 E3i: Ethics, Ecology, Evolution, & intelligence (An Alternative Paradigm)

1993 War and Peace in the Age of Information–Superintendent’s Guest Lecture, Naval Postgraduate School (NPS)

1994 Sounding the Alarm on Cyber-Security

1994 National and Corporate Security in the Age of Information

1994 Talking Points to the Public Interest Summit: Connectivity, Content, Coordination, and C4 Security

1995 Creating a Smart Nation: Strategy, Policy, Intelligence, & Information

1995 National Information Strategy 101 Presentation to CENDI/COSPO

1995 The Global Information Explosion: A Threat to National Security? (National Defense University, 16 May 1995)

1998 Talking Points on Hackers

1998 TAKEDOWN: Targets, Tools, & Technocracy

1998 Information Peacekeeping: The Purest Form of War

1998 JFQ The Asymmetric Threat: Listening to the Debate

2002 American Committees on Foreign Relations (ACFR) Road Show to 19 Cities, 9-11, U.S. Intelligence, and the Real World

2002 FAILURE of 20th Century Intelligence

2003 The C4I Revolution: Smart Mobs, Dumb Organizations, & Asymmetric Warfare–Why Nothing President Bush Has Done Improves National Security

2004 Department of Homeland Security (November)

2006 Searching for Bin Laden: The Use of Intelligence in the War on Terror or How NOT to Spend the Taxpayer’s Treasure

2006 The Failure of 21st Century Intelligence (Followed by SPY IMPROV)

2008 Earth Intelligence Network Brief to Hackers on Planet Earth (HOPE)

2008 Chapter: Paradigms of Failure

2009 Perhaps We Should Have Shouted: A Twenty-Year Restrospective

2009 The Ultimate Hack: Re-Inventing Intelligence to Re-Engineer Earth (Denmark 27-28 October 2009)

2011 Cyber-Command or IO 21 + IO Roots

2011 Hacking Health

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