Recently released documents by whistle-blower, Edward Snowden, have revealed that the NSA had constructed a far more insidious means of conducting cyber-warfare than we had ever suspected. “From a military perspective, surveillance of the internet is merely ‘Phase 0′ (as in prior to phase 1) in the US digital war strategy.”
A new report by the New York Times and Der Spiegel has revealed that the NSA is engaging in ‘guerrilla warfare’ in the hopes of making its hacking undetectable and untraceable, leaving no evidence that they were behind attacks….
According to Der Spiegel, “the US government is currently undertaking a massive effort to digitally arm itself for network warfare.” And, they report, the NSA and the other ‘five eyes’, “have adopted ‘plausible deniability’ as their guiding principle for internet operations.”
This brings us to North Korea, where the New York Times has reported that the alleged hacking, “must be seen as a response to the 2010 NSA hacking that had long preceded it.”
EXCERPT FROM REPORT:
Spurred by growing concern about North Korea’s maturing capabilities, the American spy agency drilled into the Chinese networks that connect North Korea to the outside world, picked through connections in Malaysia favored by North Korean hackers and penetrated directly into the North with the help of South Korea and other American allies, according to former United States and foreign officials, computer experts later briefed on the operations and a newly disclosed N.S.A. document.
A classified security agency program expanded into an ambitious effort, officials said, to place malware that could track the internal workings of many of the computers and networks used by the North’s hackers, a force that South Korea’s military recently said numbers roughly 6,000 people. Most are commanded by the country’s main intelligence service, called the Reconnaissance General Bureau, and Bureau 121, its secretive hacking unit, with a large outpost in China.
Yup, the NSA has been proven to have hacked North Korea, but the converse has not. Der Spiegel has also found that the NSA, “has been honing and augmenting its hacking prowess for a very long time.”
THE REPORT CONTINUES:
According to top secret documents from the archive of NSA whistle-blower, Edward Snowden, seen exclusively by SPIEGEL, they are planning for wars of the future in which the internet will play a critical role, with the aim of being able to use the net to paralyze computer networks and, by doing so, potentially all the infrastructure they control, including power and water supplies, factories, airports or the flow of money.
During the 20th century, scientists developed so-called ABC weapons — atomic, biological and chemical. It took decades before their deployment could be regulated and, at least partly, outlawed. New digital weapons have now been developed for the war on the internet. But there are almost no international conventions or supervisory authorities for these D weapons, and the only law that applies is the survival of the fittest.
Canadian media theorist Marshall McLuhan foresaw these developments decades ago. In 1970, he wrote, “World War III is a guerrilla information war with no division between military and civilian participation.” That’s precisely the reality that spies are preparing for today.
The US Army, Navy, Marines and Air Force have already established their own cyber forces, but it is the NSA, also officially a military agency, that is taking the lead.
The Der Spiegel report also describes a new Snowden document that revealed that the NSA saw internet surveillance as, “their first step in a plan to ‘control it all.'”
THE REPORT ADDS:
From a military perspective, surveillance of the internet is merely “Phase 0” in the US digital war strategy. Internal NSA documents indicate that it is the prerequisite for everything that follows. They show that the aim of the surveillance is to detect vulnerabilities in enemy systems. Once ‘stealthy implants’ have been placed to infiltrate enemy systems, thus allowing ‘permanent accesses,’ then Phase Three has been achieved — a phase headed by the word ‘dominate’ in the documents. This enables them to, “control/destroy critical systems & networks at will through pre-positioned accesses (laid in Phase 0).” Critical infrastructure is considered by the agency to be, “anything that is important in keeping a society running: energy, communications and transportation.” The internal documents state that the ultimate goal is ‘real-time controlled escalation’.
So the NSA was embedding the very cyber-terrorism bombs that law-makers were warning against from the get-go, so that when some country retaliates against an American attack, it can feign surprise and launch even more destruction.
AND FINALLY:
One NSA presentation proclaims that, “the next major conflict will start in cyberspace.” To that end, the US government is currently undertaking a massive effort to digitally arm itself for network warfare. For the 2013 secret intelligence budget, the NSA projected it would need around $1 billion in order to increase the strength of its computer network attack operations. The budget included an increase of some $32 million for ‘unconventional solutions’ alone.
Der Spiegel described the NSA’s tactics as digital ‘guerrilla warfare’ in which, “little differentiation is made between soldiers and civilians.”
“It’s a stunning approach with which the digital spies deliberately undermine the very foundations of the rule of law around the globe. This approach threatens to transform the internet into a lawless zone in which superpowers and their secret services operate according to their own whims with very few ways to hold them accountable for their actions.”
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if i see any sign of civilian casualties, or civilian computers being hacked or stuff like that then my computer goes in the trash and internet shut down. its as simple as that.
The NSA and this mentality of theirs, is going to destroy the Internet. The only solution to this war mongering, is for each country to create their own Internet disconnected from the rest of the world.
And the biggest thing that scares me, is the I truely believe, that the people who hold power are paranoid schizophrinics and that a majority of their paranoia is completly unfounded.
Cool. Don’t fool yourself people of govt are doing the same thing. If you have $$$ and resources you have the power. This has been going on for centuries.
The comment of govt create separate networks is already here. They are called enclaves and there is a PoP going into the net. So disconnect that PoP is a matter of “unplugging the cable”.
As long as humans live war mongering will never die.