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Things That Have Already Happened - Cyber Pearl Harbor
From: Dave Aitel <dave () immunityinc com>
Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2014 11:05:55 -0400
Huawei is in the news again for trying to hack the NSA. I love this. I wear my Huawei shirt proudly and often. And fellow DD subscriber Bill Plummer has this beautiful Zen Koan to say: “While Huawei <http://www.washingtontimes.com/topics/huawei/> is challenged to respond to The Washington Times’ vague inquiry, the suggestion that a globally-proven and trusted $40 billion vender of commercial telecommunications gear would risk its very existence by attempting, in some unspecified fashion, to somehow ‘access’ a government network through some unidentified third party, would seem nothing short of absurd,” Huawei <http://www.washingtontimes.com/topics/huawei/> spokesman Bill Plummer told Inside the Ring in a statement. http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/oct/15/inside-the-ring-chinese-tried-to-hack-nsa-using-us/?page=all http://freebeacon.com/national-security/chinese-us-in-secret-cyber-talks/ "Cyber Pearl Harbor" comes up in every talk that I have with a US "policy maker". The difference between the cyber domain and the naval domain is that when Cyber Pearl Harbor happens, you don't realize it in public till years later, although the spook community sees it instantly. But the results, in this case, are the same. There's a great scene in Admiral Yamamoto's biography where he expresses his desire NOT to conduct a war with the United States. """ *Should hostilities once break out between Japan and the United States, it is not enough that we take Guam and the Philippines, nor even Hawaii and San Francisco. To make victory certain, we would have to march into Washington and dictate the terms of peace in the White House. I wonder if our politicians, among whom armchair arguments about war are being glibly bandied about in the name of state politics, have confidence as to the final outcome and are prepared to make the necessary sacrifices.* *In the first six to twelve months of a war with the United States and Great Britain I will run wild and win victory upon victory. But then, if the war continues after that, I have no expectation of success.* """ I don't believe there is anyone in the command structure of the PLA or Russian government who shares Yamamoto's cautionary stance. However, they soon may come around to his philosophy. The Chinese and Russian industries are /in no way/ prepared to engage with a US and Allies team invigorated by ten years of war-footed cyberfunding building alien offensive technology. And weirdly, what the Allied counteroffensive looks like is an *expanded defensive perimeter*. The primary example is that Allied Intel organizations are starting to offer virtualization IaaS platforms defended by their own proprietary technology <http://itac.ca/files/IaaS%20Implementation%20Guidelines.pdf> to their agencies, and soon to "Critical Infrastructure" and then eventually to their entire industrial base. And the next step is to offer them to other countries' critical infrastructure companies. Think Saudi Aramco would buy into NSA-defended computing platforms, in the face of Iranian attacks? Maybe. This is network effect economy of scale at its very best. The future of the "Internet" is that everyone not directly defended by the NSA is going to be parasitized to the point of paralysis. Love it or leave it! -dave
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