Path: e420r-atl2.usenetserver.com!newsfeeds-atl2!rip!news.webusenet.com!feed3.newsreader.com!newsreader.com!newsfeed.news2me.com!newsfeed2.earthlink.net!newsfeed.earthlink.net!stamper.news.pas.earthlink.net!stamper.news.atl.earthlink.net!harp.news.atl.earthlink.net!not-for-mail From: "Allen L. Barker" Newsgroups: alt.mindcontrol,alt.politics.org.cia,alt.politics.org.covert,soc.rights.human Subject: US military cyber-attack operations Date: Fri, 25 Oct 2002 13:36:00 -0400 Organization: No Dismay Lines: 36 Message-ID: <3DB98100.8C5FB85@datafilter.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: a5.f7.7c.34 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Server-Date: 25 Oct 2002 17:42:08 GMT X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.78 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.9-31 i686) X-Accept-Language: en Xref: usenetserver.com alt.mindcontrol:125220 alt.politics.org.cia:133756 alt.politics.org.covert:111671 soc.rights.human:152654 [The real question: Is the group below waging information warfare against the domestic population (and other "friendlies")? How would we know? Some secret group certainly is. What sorts of surveillance data do they get to feed back against targets to "spook" them? What sorts of political (or cultural or religious, etc.) agendas do they have? What sort of oversight? What other government and semi-governmental groups are doing the same things? What foreign governments? Perhaps any "good guys" in that collection might actually help the victims who have had their fundamental human rights in the real world cyber-violated. There is whistleblowing, for example, or other means. One can always hope.] "U.S. Steps Up Cyber Attack Arsenal After Sept. 11" _Defense News_, May 27- June 2, 2002, page 8. http://www.defensenews.com/ [...] "Closely guarded and rarely discussed, the U.S. military's ability to attack enemy computer networks has been expanded to help wage war on terrorism. About two years after taking over the mission of attacking and defending computer networks, U.S. Space Command employs 340 military and civilian personnel in the shadowy field, a seven-fold increase, a command official said." [...] -- Mind Control: TT&P --> http://www.datafilter.com/mc Allen Barker