Holes in NATO’s Cyber Defense Pledge

The Holes in NATO’s Cyber Defense Pledge by William A. Blunden / September 4th, 2014 NATO members are currently meeting in Wales to consider a joint defense agreement which stipulates that a cyberattack on one member would represent an attack on all of them.1 Though the concept of international teamwork may seem appealing at the outset there are at least a couple of issues that officials are [intentionally] neglecting. High-End Anti-Forensics For instance, how can countries mobilize to fend off a cyberattack when they can’t even tell who launched it? Deception is an age-old instrument of spy tradecraft and the Pentagon has been actively working on developing Internet stealth technology for decades. [ ...] Folks, it’s anarchy. Until we mobilize and get our political leaders to outlaw covert ops the government and corporate spies show no sign of letting up. In all probability, as things progress the whole clandestine scene is just going to get worse. This past April Obama openly bragged to China’s leadership that the U.S would be devoting $26 billion to the Pentagon’s cyber trough and expanding the U.S. force to 6,000 so-called “cyberwarriors”.15 Guess where all of that funding goes to? The moral of the story is this: when high-level Pentagon types and think tank pundits start yammering about cyberattacks from Russia or China keep in mind that our security services are neck deep in deception ops directed against their alleged allies. History shows that the American Deep State is constantly in search of new enemies, even if it has to fabricate them,16 and our corporate rulers have no scruples about launching attacks that kill untold thousands of innocent people so that they can boost quarterly profits. [... EXTRACT - FULL @ SOURCE ] http://dissidentvoice.org/2014/09/the-holes-in-natos-cyber-defense-pledge/

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