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CIA war game simulates major Internet attack
Key Excerpts from Article on Website of Washington Post/Reuters
Washington Post/Reuters, May 26, 2005
Posted: November 11th, 2006
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/05...
Posted: November 11th, 2006
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/05...
The CIA is conducting a cyber-war game this week geared to simulate a major Internet attack by enemy computer hackers, an intelligence official said Thursday. Dubbed "Silent Horizon," the three-day unclassified exercise is based on a scenario set five years in the future and involves participants from government and the private sector. Online crime has exploded in recent years, a result of organized crime groups based in Eastern Europe. But investigators so far have uncovered few links to Islamic extremists.
Note: Do you think it is the terrorists who want to shut down the Internet, or might there be political elites who don't want their hidden agendas exposed?