Wednesday, March 12, 2008

Homeland Security bulletin

It's not often I get to cite something from the department of Homeland Security - but here's something related to what our government is doing relative to the threats from china etc.

Cyber Storm II National Cyber Exercise

I think it's a great idea - though if they really wanted to test their chops, I wouldn't go through existing corporate structures. There are much better and much scarier real world scenarios to try out!

1. the honeypot.org - this group is consistently floating 'user' credentials and priviate information out there for real bad guys to come get them. They work like 'Jim' in the Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom. They tag data, so it can be tracked later.
2. the blackhat conventions -- this organization of white and blackhat hackers probably have the best resources to create a 'bad guy' squad.

Then again, when you've got pandoras box in your hand ... does it make sense for anyone to open it?

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