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                Date: 2000-02-20
                 
                 
                DDOS-Attacken als Desinformations/kampagne
                
                 
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      Veranstaltet  von bestimmten Diensten, die alleine von den  
Attacken auf Yahoo & Co  profitieren. Sagt FBI/NSA Veteran  
Wayne Madsen, der irgendwann die Seiten gewechselt hat  
und schon seit Jahren für das Electronic Privacy Information  
Center tätig ist. 
 
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WAYNE MADSEN  
For what it is worth, I am a 20-year veteran of the computer  
security community. I have served in the Navy, National  
Security Agency, State Department, Computer Sciences  
Corporation, RCA, and have consulted on computer security  
with the National Institute of Standards and Technology,  
international banks, telecom companies and even firms that  
manufacture candy.  
.. 
 
The hype associated with the recent Internet flooding is  
outrageous and serves the agendas of the military and  
intelligence communities regarding new vistas for bloated  
Pentagon and espionage budgets.  
 
On 17 February, National Public Radio's Diane Rehm Show  
had a round table discussion featuring James Adams, a  
former London Sunday Times reporter in Washington who is  
now a drum beater for information warfare, and Jeffrey  
Hunker, the former head of the White House Critical  
Infrastructure Assurance Office. Adams suggested that for  
critical infrastructure protection certain civil liberties must be  
forfeited. He also stated that Internet transactions should not  
be afforded the same degree of privacy as the U.S. mail.  
... 
 
This radio program is highly indicative of the current hype  
surrounding the Distributed Denial of Service (DDOS) attacks  
on DOT COM sites on the Internet. Even the use of the  
acronym DDOS is amazing. Here they are, twenty-something  
DOT COM executives, who probably never thought about  
computer security except for watching re-runs of "Hackers"  
and "Sneakers," using Pentagon-originated terms like  
"Distributed Denial of Service" attacks.  
 
... 
 
Then Clinton manages to take 90 minutes to attend an  
Internet security summit on February 15. Northern Ireland's  
peace agreement is falling apart, the Israeli-Palestine  
agreement is unraveling, and Russia's new President is  
putting ex-KGB agents in his government, but Clinton has  
enough time to talk with a group of e-commerce barons,  
computer security geeks, and even one hacker. The whole  
thing appeared to be staged and scheduled way in advance.  
 
The whole so-called Internet "hack" smells of a perception  
management campaign by the intelligence community.  
Perhaps the system flooding was coordinated by one group --  
however, those types of attacks probably occur on a daily  
basis without being reported by the world's media. It is  
important to note that one of the key components of  
information warfare -- according to the Pentagon's own  
seminal documents -- is perception management --  
psychological operations to whip up public support for a  
policy or program. The early Defense Science Board reports  
on Critical Infrastructure Protection actually call for a  
campaign to change the public's attitude about information  
system and network security.  
 
The Pentagon is a master at deception campaigns aimed at  
the news media. They constantly broadcast disinformation to  
television and radio audiences in Haiti, Serbia, Colombia,  
Mexico and elsewhere. They are now extending this to cyber  
space. Critical infrastructure protection is a masterful ruse  
aimed at creating the myth of impeding cyber-peril.  
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However, it is certain that the US Government has already  
done more to disrupt the Internet than any other actor -- state- 
sponsored or freelance. For the past few years, US  
government hackers have penetrated networks at the  
European Parliament, Australian Stock Exchange, and  
banks in Athens, Nicosia, Moscow, Johannesburg, Beirut,  
Tel Aviv, Zurich, and Vaduz. The US also engaged in network  
penetrations in Yugoslavia during the NATO war against that  
country.  
 
Why doesn't NPR, CBS, ABC, NBC and the others focus on  
what the US is doing to disrupt the Internet? They are instead  
falling into a familiar Pentagon trap of deception and diversion. 
 
Volltext 
http://cryptome.org/madsen-hmhd.htm
                   
 
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edited by Harkank 
published on: 2000-02-20 
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