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Friday, February 15, 2013



CYBERSECURITY a “CLEAR AND PRESENT DANGER” IMMEDIATE ACTION IS REQUIREDnot tomorrow but today!
 I have written extensively about the problem of cyber-security.  As many of you, my dear readers know all too well,  the issue of cyber-attacks against the USG and other private entities has been extensive and relentless. 
  We cannot wish away the problem. 
  We cannot discuss the problem until many our infrastructures collapse for one ‘unknown’ reason or another.
  We cannot cogitate, meditate and rant and rail against government intervention and government intrusion into our privacy [remember I am one of the premier ranters on this issue]. 
Sometimes, we do have to deal with a REALITY that continues to impinge on  OUR very EXISTENCE.
  It’s not a cholera plague.
  It’s not meteorite that has hit us yet, as it did unfortunately in Russia just yesterday [traveling at 19,000 mph].
  However, it is a CONTAGION that we cannot see, smell, hear or anyway perceive until long after it does its damage.
It’s a bombardment of electronics, more specifically ‘one’ and ‘zeros’ raging through the ether of life [light,  sound, or any other means of conductivity] to engage in an INVINCIBLE WAR,  for want of a better Clausewitz Term I will use the word ‘WAR’ against our US FUNCTIONAL and STRUCTURAL ENTITIES. 
  What do I mean by “FUNCTIONAL AND STRUCTURAL ENTITIES?”  It sounds like some Sociological Taxonomy that I may have learned or absorbed by intellectual osmosis in some esoteric ‘Think Tank’. 
Believe me, those FSE’s as I call them are very real.
  Banks,  private industries,  electrical power grids and nuclear power units as well as a multiplicity of airline planes, air-traffic control towers, and a multitude of host entities depended on electricity and the internet---they are all vulnerable to ‘attack’ from any and all sources within and outside the USG. 
  So why do I emphasize the important of the USG in this case and particularly the military as our front line of defense as opposed to our private security companies which I believe are well-intentioned (or profit motivated or both).
  The answer is quite simple.
  As many of you by now know, I had been originally trained, more accurately described as ’exposed’ to the INTERNET AND SOCIAL MEDIA and it’s consequences, CYBER WAR in 1973---yes 1973--- at MIT graduate school at the Center for International Studies,  funded by  DEFENSE ADVANCED RESEARCH AGENCY and the CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY . 
That’s right !!
It was not Google or Yahoo.
  It was not NetApp!
  It was not Amazon.com!
  It was not FACEBOOK –despite Mark Zuckerberg’s great flim flam film attempt to take credit for it.
  The INTERNET and the SOCIAL MEDIA were conceived well over forty years ago. 
  So what does that mean for today's lesson? 
  George Santayana,  the philosopher, stated the basic premise of imaginative creation coupled with immediate action, and I will restructure his thoughts to fit my present arguments [who in their right mind would claim that I am objective?]: 
If we don’t learn the history of the past,  those mistakes will repeat themselves again and again. 
Clearly, the point I am laboring on at this moment is that we are already behind the curve.   Russia decimated one of it’s ex-Baltic allies with a cyber-attack several years ago. 
  When I was in Silicon Valley, working as a serial entrepreneur [or at least trying],  I could identify well over four thousand  Chinese “cut out” companies engaged in industrial espionage and cyber -attacks. 
And that was over fifteen years ago
  But we did nothing about it.   Unfortunately,  the FBI literally got two of it’s ‘peckers’ caught in one Chinese Intel Operative who had ‘honey trapped’ two FBI Counter—Intelligence Operatives and compromised the entire FBI CI program for years. 
But thanks to my friend ex-head of the Counter Intelligence Unit at the FBI,  David Major and Paul Redman at the CIA, all those ‘honey traps’ were literally ‘sewed up’ [no pun intended].  
Now back to my main point. 
  POTUS Obama enacted another EXECUTIVE ORDER on February 13, 2013  in order to ‘bolster cyber-security measures’.
Unfortunately,  the Republicans [a party that I once belonged to before they ‘water boarded’ themselves] had derailed the White House-backed cyber security bill  choosing to favor “private business approach.”

  According to this amorphous business group they were properly concerned that the executive action was planting seeds for the future regulation that would require companies to meet certain security standards. 
  Well, so what? 
  According to Obama’s Executive Order,  it directs different agencies and those companies affiliated with those agencies [one can imagine which anagram agencies are involved] to develop and implement a program of voluntary cyber-security standards for companies  running KEY INFRASTRUCTURES [my emphasis]. 
  So where is the problem here?
  My favorite obstructive Republican “what can I do to screw up our national security again” John McCain [R-Arizona] has once again interceded into a SERIOUS National Security problem and OBSTRUCTED NECESSARY LEGISLATION that was REQUIRED YEARS AGO
Now, my fellow citizens, we are faced with an interesting dilemma:
  Do we support another Executive Order by Obamus which does, in my opinion,  provide an immediate ‘band-aid’ protection, for a ‘trade-off’ of ‘business groups’ which are far less interested in the WELFARE of our INFRASTRUCTURES than making PROFITS for their, mostly ANTIQUATED SOFTWARE? 
  In my experience,  I will choose the better of the worse right now.  I would rather go with POTUS’ Executive Order and allow our MILITARY to IMMEDIATELY ENGAGE in BEEFING UP our CYBER-SECURITY.   The U.S. cannot wait for a ‘group’--- of  self interested PROFIT MAKING,  more importantly ANTIQUATED software promoted by McCain and other money-hungry Senators.  These senators are the same ones that blocked the appointment one of their own Vietnam War Heroes, ex-Senator Chuck Hagel
  Furthermore,  I have been thrown off GOOGLE, FACEBOOK, TWITTER, more times than I have been arrested by any FBI, CIA or MI units for my DISSENTING OPINIONS on my blogs. 
  In fact, I have never been arrested or harassed by any of  the government agencies--- if anything they have found my blogs to be ‘funny’, ’irreverent’ , which is what they were intended to be… but the PRIVATE COMPANIES are “more controlling than any totalitarian regime!” Google would be right at home in the old Soviet system.
  I started this blog by telling you about the AMAZING ACCOMPLISHMENTS OF DARPA and the  EARLY CIA [Pay attention John Brennan] and how the MILITARY/INTEL COMMUNITY foresaw the present day problems long before there were profits and companies to garner wealth from U.S. and other countries' discoveries. 
Now that there is a CLEAR AND PRESENT DANGER,  I have no other recourse than to agree with President Obama and congratulate him and our military/intel community for taking EMERGENCY ACTION before I begin to really see the disasters I had envisioned in my four hour ABC TV Mini Series called, “NET FORCE” !
  But as a physician, national security ‘old hand’ I cannot but exclaim: ”LET US EMBRACE THE DANGERS OF REALITY AND ACT ACCORDINGLY IN A TIMELY, JUDICIAL, TEMPERATE FASHION!” 
Cyber-Attacks, and Cyber-War are not areas for PARTISAN politics.
 This time, we do not have a false flag! IT’s REAL !!!!
  And if you don’t believe me, go ask the leaders of Latvia and other Baltic States what happened to them when they messed with Russia? 
Putin has his charms. But Cyber –Attacks and Cyber-War is not one of them !!!
AMERICA, WAKE UP …. The Chinese are coming!  The Chinese are coming!.. OOOPS… they are already HERE!!!!
Oh by the way,  McCain,  go back to Arizona and leave our national security alone!…. You’ve messed it up enough in IRAQ … THE SURGE… AFGHANISTAN…. 
……..Or go back to Las Vegas…. We have had enough of you and your narcissistic self destructive histrionics!
Remember, you are NO WAR HERO !!!
Let’s get on with the work of PROTECTING OUR AMERICAN INFRASTRUCTURES ASAP!!!!
  Thank you Mr President and our military/intel community.
Once again, DARPA and the CIA come to the forefront in a very, very CONSTRUCTIVE WAY!!!!!
Keep up the GREAT WORK AND VIGILANCE!!!!



16 comments:

  1. That's a game no one can win. Any system which is connected to the outside world can be penetrated.

    The answer is as simple as keeping your systems which operate your organization separate from the outside world.

    Just have a second set of computers for internet or other outside communications purposes and keep all your internal operating computers from any outside contact.

    It's done.

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  2. In the days before the internet we used to have to recruit HUMINT, or spies, to physically go to the target computer system and work it to obtain what we were looking for.

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  3. Dr. P.--
    WARNING: Chapter 21 " the Big Bamboozle" by murdered Barry Seal (assassinated in '86 by Poppy Bush) pilot, Philip Marshall, is devoted to YOU and your affirmations:
    P. 74-77 "patriot games" is all about intelligence insider, Dr. Steve Pieczenik!

    The inference in the book is that DCI & DNI Director & former chair of house intelligence committee, PORTER GOSS, funded CIA & created and inserted amendments in The
    PATRIOT ACT to deprive us of liberty & instill perpetual fear & terror in the citizenry... One SINISTER DUDE.

    Goss also unilaterally has prevented Jonathan Pollard from freedom for more than 30 years treated like a caged animal the 1st 7 years in MARION FED PEN. Stripped naked for 10 months in federal PSYCHIATRIC hospital penitentiary in Springfield Mo., ( no recommendation for treatment.) Only Lee Hamilton assisted in transferring him to Butner NC. Pollard is CIA's Israel's political prisoner not unlike Natan Sharansky in the USSR in the 80's.

    As for cyber attacks, I am a firm believer that like 911, it will commence as a DOMESTIC inside job on Obama's watch to create more LAWS & RESTRICTIONS.

    China has no reason to initiate any attack. WE HAVE RELINQUSHED OUR GDP to their economy in borrowing, growth, & employment. They mess with us & it will bring them down also. We owe them too much $$$$. However they could retaliate if a contrived cyber attack gives OBAMA GOOD REASON TO DEFAULT ON OUR LOANS. (premeditated domino principle - very BAD FOR HIS HISTORICAL LEGACY.)

    Irony: Marshall writes that "Obama" is different & would bring Kalid Sheik Mohammed to Federal court & expose him as a 9-11 patsy. HAHAHAHAHAHA!! OBAMA HAS BEEN BOUGHT & sold by POPPY BUSH.

    AGAIN WHOEVER WHACKED MARSHALL & HIS KIDS READ HIS BOOK:

    PROTECT YOURSELF FROM THESE PSYCHOPATHS & HIRE SECURITY & a PI.
    "Add Steve Pieczenik to the growing list of insiders who have tried to expose the truth". P.77

    3 of 4 co chairs of federal investigations wrote 9/11 books; only Porter Goss did not...

    bam·boo·zled = To take in by elaborate methods of deceit; hoodwink. See Synonyms at deceive.
    Using code words bin laden & al Qaeda, the BUSH Intelligence Apparatus has seized control of ALL 3 branches of American government: Dxecutive, Judicial (SCOTUS) & Legislative.
    Departments of Justice, State, FBI, TSA, & DHS - BUSH HAS CONQUORED ALL INCLUDING the US Treasury ($1trillion on the "hunt" for bin Ladin, the unprovoked wars, & the Patriot Act.)

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    1. Bomboozle. Great word. Obama used "bamboozled" and "hoodwinked"--a clear reference to the movie Malcolm X.

      What you're saying about Philip Marshall is troubling. Do you mean that someone who wrote a book questioning 9-11 didn't suddenly decide to kill his two kids, himself, and even his dog?

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    2. Patriarch- thanks for the heads up on the book: The Big Bamboozle, just got it in the mail yesterday. I will take a look at it soon.
      s

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    3. Dude Jonathan Pollard isn't anyone's "political prision." The Isrealis and Likud and Netanyahu in particular lobby every President for his release because Israelis are OBCESSED with never leaving one of there own behind. Yet in all of Netanyahu's lobbying he makes no apologies whatsoever for what Israel did in running Pollard as a penetration agent against the United States. Pollard did more damage to the US than any other spy save Ames, and his sentence is completely justified. In my opinion the maximum penalites should be applied to:

      1.police and public officials, and,

      2.spies from countries pretending to be our allies.

      Hypocracy is the greatest crime.

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    4. As for Barryman Seal...

      There is nothing linking the Bushes to his assassination.

      Seal was a very strange drug runner in the eighties in that he was well known to so many people and was a kind of "the known cocaine running pilot down the block."

      Seal was killed by the Ochoa family of Madillin because he brought so much attention to himself and was facing a twenty year stretch for being so stupid.

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    5. And furthermore...

      Isn't it evil enough that the Bushes bring about horrific wars which are completely unnecessary, obviously because they place little value on the lives or sufferings of others?

      Why complicate the case against them by trying to implicate them in opaque matters in which the evidence is so dubeous?

      Stick to what is obvious and undeniable about these malevolent villians. They are without any doubt some of the most evil people this country has ever produced.

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    6. MIT,
      I thought you were going to check your spelling?
      I am not a "dude", but you are a DUD!

      YOU are a fake phony fraud, not from MIT nor the CIA. You are a lost cause, DUD.

      Jonathan Pollard provided Israel with the geographical satellite data which enabled Israel to bomb the Iraqi Osirak Reactor, Dud,...
      Weinberger was furious at the time.

      In hindsight, Bush 43 was not.

      I happen to have intimate knowledge of Pollard's activity and though it deserved prison time, it did not deserve a plea bargain of LIFE without a recommendation of Parole, based upon lying deceitful EX PARTE INFORMATION by lying deceitful Joseph di Genova. You don't hear too much about di Genova these takes but he made a national name for himself because of the Pollard case; he would be a zero without it.

      POLLARD HAS SERVED 30 YEARS, 3 TIMES AS MUCH AS AMERICANS WHO SPIED FOR ARCH ENEMIES.

      DO YOUR HOMEWORK, DUD: HE'S A POLITICAL PRISONER -- LAND FOR POLLARD.

      DO YOUR HOMEWORK, DUD: BARRY SEAL WORKED AS A CONTRACT AGENT PILOT MOVING COCAINE TO MENA ARKANSAS IN EXCHANGE FOR GUNS FOR PURCHASE FOR THE CONTRAS. He was subsequently assassinated in New Orleans when he became compromised.

      IF YOU CAN HOLD YOUR ATTENTION IN A RECLINING POSITION, GO TO THE LIBRARY AND TAKE OUT THE BOOK:
      "COMPROMISED: CLINTON, BUSH AND THE CIA" BY TERRY REED.

      YOU MIGHT HAVE TO CORRECT YOUR PROCLAMATIONS: DUD!

      YOU ARE A VERBIAGE PROPAGANIST OBOT -- YOU HAVE REVEALED YOURSELF AND I HAVE YOUR NUMBER, D-U-D!!!!

      HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

      GO JUMP IN THE RIVER!

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    7. I'd say you just proved you know actually nothing about this topic or myself.

      Are you sure you're not related to Piers Morgan?

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  4. "I have been thrown off GOOGLE, FACEBOOK, TWITTER, more times than I have been arrested by any FBI, CIA or MI units for my DISSENTING OPINIONS on my blogs.
    In fact, I have never been arrested or harassed by any of the government agencies--- if anything they have found my blogs to be ‘funny’, ’irreverent’ , which is what they were intended to be… but the PRIVATE COMPANIES are “more controlling than any totalitarian regime!” Google would be right at home in the old Soviet system."

    Excellent point, though one might use a new term to describe the situation: CYBER-FEUDALISM

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    1. But this doesn't entirely capture the situation either, for it misses the "public-private partnership" aspect that Obama loves so much, whereby unconstitutional governmental actions can be effectively outsourced to "private" companies like face-book to do things like psychologically profile its users, and make such information available to gov't agencies on an as needed basis...

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  5. When I was at MIT CIS in the early 1980s I didn't hear anything about "WWIMX," which was developed by DARPA and became the internet. I don't think "the Center" at MIT had much to do with it. The people who had offices there when I was present were Goerge Rathjens, Jack Ruina, Stephen Myer, Stephen Miller, and Charlie Galzer. Those guys were not so much about computers at all, and were more about weapons systems rather than C3. In fact I had difficulties with my Thesis because it was about the vulnerabilities of the strategic C3 archetecture and these particular individuals were not that informed about it. I had to go to Santa Monica and Rand to get what I needed.

    Regardless, when DARPA "invented" WWIMX and the internet I don't think they envisioned Facebook or other silly applications of commercial varieties. Nor did those "Harold Brown-type" people at DARPA consider that XXX rated porn would dominate it either. They were way to nurdy for that.

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  6. Come to think of it I think Harold Brown was actually the Head of DARPA in 1973. I can't imagine him watching porn on his computer.

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    1. I meant to say Stephen MEYER and Charlie GLAZER. My typos on this board are becoming epic.

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  7. Bari Malik SHABAZZ, illegitimate son of MALCOLM X,
    Check out the gene pool for yourself:

    http://oilforimmigration.org/upload/obama_x1.gif
    http://www.oilforimmigration.org/facts/?page_id=284

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