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Jump To Comment: 4 3 2 1'[Army Reserve Maj. Richard J. McNorton, CENTCOM's chief of engagement operations] said the team contacts bloggers to inform the writers about any given topic that may have been posted on their site. This outreach effort enables the team to offer complete information to bloggers by inviting them to visit CENTCOM's Web site for news releases, data or imagery.
The team engages bloggers who are posting inaccurate or untrue information, as well as bloggers who are posting incomplete information. They extend a friendly invitation to all bloggers to visit the command's Web site.'
and, oh!, it just gets better after that....
read: http://www.dailykos.com/story/2006/3/3/141233/7763
»Rummy describes your average Indymedia activist's tools as suspect Al-Qaeda activity.... I still wonder about Baghdad Burning's raid, was it a message?«
Donald H. Rumsfeld speaks to the Council on Foreign Relations....
Our federal government is only beginning to adapt our operations for the 21st Century. For the most part, the U.S. Government still functions as a “five and dime” store in an E-Bay world.
Today we are engaged in the first war in history -- unconventional and irregular as it is -- in an era of:
• E-mail;
• Blogs;
• Blackberries;
• Instant messaging;
• Digital cameras;
• A global Internet with no inhibitions;
• Cell phones;
• Hand held video cameras;
• Talk radio;
• 24 hours news broadcasts; and
• Satellite television.
more madness at...
http://www.defenselink.mil/speeches/2006/sp20060217-125....html
U.S. concludes 'Cyber Storm' mock attacks
The government concluded its "Cyber Storm" wargame Friday, its biggest-ever exercise to test how it would respond to devastating attacks over the Internet from anti-globalization activists, underground hackers and bloggers.
Bloggers?
Participants confirmed parts of the worldwide simulation challenged government officials and industry executives to respond to deliberate misinformation campaigns and activist calls by Internet bloggers, online diarists whose "Web logs" include political rantings and musings about current events.
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Government officials from the United States, Canada, Australia and England and executives from Microsoft, Cisco, Verisign and others said they were careful to simulate attacks only using isolated computers, working from basement offices at the Secret Services headquarters in downtown Washington.
More at
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/1152AP_Cyber_Sto....html
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U.S. Department of Homeland Security Conducts First Full-Scale
Cyber Security Exercise to Enhance Nation’s Cyber Preparedness
Washington, DC -- U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced the completion of Cyber Storm, the first full-scale government-led cyber security exercise to examine response, coordination, and recovery mechanisms to a simulated cyber-event within international, federal, state, and local governments, in conjunction with the private sector. In total, 115 public, private, and international agencies, organizations, and companies were involved in the planning and implementation of Cyber Storm.
http://www.dhs.gov/dhspublic/display?content=5410
Riverbend is the pseudonymous author of the blog Bagdad Burning, launched August 17, 2003. Riverbend's identity is carefully hidden, but the weblog entries indicate that Riverbend is a young, unmarried Iraqi woman, from a Sunni family, living with her parents and brother in a middle class neighbourhood in the north of Baghdad. Before the US occupation she was a computer programmer. She writes in idiomatic English reflecting upon her Western education. The blog combines political statements with a large dose of Iraqi cultural information, such as the celebration of Ramadhan and examples of Iraqi cuisine.
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