Homeland Security prepares for Hippy Terrorists

Shane99X · Aug 18, 2006

They see you as a threat to national security.
Are you?
Should you be?

http://blog.wired.com/27BStroke6/index.blog?entry_id=1539952
Tuesday, 15 August 2006
When Hippies Turn to Cyber Terror
Last February the Department of Homeland Security oversaw a large-scale international cyber terror simulation involving 115 public and private organizations in the U.S., Canada, Britain, Australia, and New Zealand, all testing their ability to coordinate with one another and respond to computer-driven attacks. It was called Cyber Storm.

Nobody's said much about the results, or the details of the exercise scenario. But a newly-published DHS PowerPoint presentation on the exercise reveals that the real terrorist threat in cyber space isn't from obvious suspects like al Qaida types or Connecticut voters; it's from anti-globalization radicals and peace activists.

The attack scenario detailed in the presentation is a meticulously plotted parade of cyber horribles led by a "well financed" band of leftist radicals who object to U.S. imperialism, aided by sympathetic independent actors.

At the top of the pyramid is the Worldwide Anti-Globalization Alliance, which sets things off by calling for cyber sit-ins and denial-of-service attacks against U.S. interests. WAGA's radical arm, the villainous Black Hood Society, ratchets up the tension on day one by probing SCADA computerized control systems and military networks, eventually (spoiler warning) claiming responsibility for a commuter rail outage and the heat going out in government buildings.

The Black Hoods are a faction of Freedom Not Bombs, whose name is suspiciously similar to the real Food Not Bombs, which provides vegan meals to the homeless.

Another allied lefty-group called the Peoples Pact joins in, crashing portions of the power grid. Things get confusing when the "Tricky Trio," three evil hax0rs who are 50 percent more devious than the Deceptive Duo, hacks the FAA, issues false Amber Alerts, and manipulates the communications system of the U.S. Northern Command.

Then someone posts the No-Fly List to a public website (third act shocker: it's all nuns and Massachusetts Democrats), and opportunistic cyber thieves raid a medical database looking for identity theft targets. Logic bombs explode, wireless communications devices are corrupted, DNS caches are poisoned.

And on it goes, with over 800 scenario "injects" over four action-packed days.

Apparently, no computers were harmed in the making of Cyber Storm. "There were no actual attacks on live networks, no Red Team," the presentation notes. "Players reacted to situation and incident reports according to their regular/normal SOPs." So it was more of a paper exercise. A referee points at someone and yells, "You! Your website is defaced. What do you do?" -- and the organization responds accordingly.

According to the presentation, there were over 300 players in the war game, generating more than 21,000 e-mail messages. Among the commonsense lessons learned: "Communication paths, methods, means and protocols must be solidified in advance of crisis/incident response" and "Cooperation must include ability to link into or share info in all streams: e.g., Cyber, Physical, (Law Enforcement), Intelligence."

The scenario is nicely laid out, and perhaps technically plausible -- some of the incidents are ripped from the headlines, kind of. And I'm frankly glad to see al Qaida wasn't behind it all, since it seems unlikely that real terrorist groups will ever move to computer attacks, while physical destruction and murder is easier and more terror-producing.

But does the administration really see the far left as potential cyber terrorists ready to take down the power grid and air traffic control systems? This might explain why the U.S. keeps getting caught spying on peaceful war-protestors.

Marked "For Official Use Only," the PowerPoint deck became public when government transparency purist John Young posted it on his website, Cryptome, this week. I couldn't open it, but I located what appears to be the original on the website of the New York branch of the ISSA, a security organization, from a briefing given them last June 21
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hippiehillbilly · Aug 18, 2006

man they have had us on there watch list for years,, the rainbow family is like the number 5 terrorist group in the united states according to the goverment..

why ya think there rebuilding the ww2 concentration camps all over the united states???

Pressed_Rat · Aug 18, 2006

Most hippies believe big government is there to protect them and be their daddy.

hippiehillbilly · Aug 18, 2006

not rainbows..

Mac · Aug 19, 2006

hippies suck, and so does that word, anyone wanna simplify this post, im too tired to read

cynical_otter · Aug 20, 2006

Yeah..this is logical....NOT!

If ya'll hate hippies so much..why the hell are you one a forum called HipForums on a website called Hippy.com??

madcrappie · Aug 20, 2006

I hate hippies because they smell

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Homeland Security prepares for Hippy Terrorists

Shane99X Senior Member

hippiehillbilly the old asshole

Pressed_Rat Do you even lift, bruh?

hippiehillbilly the old asshole

Mac Member

cynical_otter Bleh!

madcrappie crazy fish

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hippiehillbilly the old asshole

Pressed_Rat Do you even lift, bruh?

hippiehillbilly the old asshole

Mac Member

cynical_otter Bleh!

madcrappie crazy fish

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