Uncle CyberSam Prepares To Defend Your Internet For You

And the "spider" keeps on spinning, and the "web" grows ever larger.

There was a time when the NSA would not know the content of this sentence minutes (or depending on the speed of typing, hours) ahead of our general readership. Those days are now gone, primarily thanks to the Patriot Act, which however merely accelerated the inevitable Orwellian destination to which American society was otherwise headed and which made constant "supervision" and "vigilance" of every US citizen a necessity (for some eyewatering details read “We Are This Far From A Turnkey Totalitarian State" - Big Brother Goes Live September 2013). There was, however, one aspect of society over which the US government did not have Chinese-type "firewall" supreme authority: the Internet. Now, as a result of an Executive Order being quietly drafted, the president of this once great country, together with the Department of Homeland Security formed in response to the events of September 11, is about to grasp supreme control over this last bastion of New Normal expression and content dissemination, naturally under the guise of protecting the people. Because as Bloomberg reports, President Obama’s administration is drafting an executive order that would create a program protecting vital computer networks from cyber attacks.

The premise: the US government needs to defend the feeble and defenseless private sector from all enemies, foreign and domestic, because, it would appear, the private sector is incapable of defending itself. And Uncle Sam is more than happy to supervise and take charge of said "defense." “An executive order is one of a number of measures we’re considering as we look to implement the president’s direction to do absolutely everything we can to better protect our nation against today’s cyberthreats,” White House spokeswoman Caitlin Hayden said in an e-mailed statement today. “We are not going to comment on ongoing internal deliberations.” Also, did we mention that the US president's decision for the greater private good would be unilaterally imposed, without the benefit of a democratic vote: after all executive orders, of the type Obama has issued 134 so far, do just that: circumvent the popular vote. We did? Good.

From Bloomberg:

In other words, it will be up to the government to intermediate in isolating and determining threats: for example... anyone with a computer and an Internet connection. And it will be up to the government to deal with said threat cleanly, quietly and efficiently.

Sadly George Orwell is long dead. But if he wasn't, we have some ideas what the sequel to 1984 would be titled.

In the meantime, we, together with various government bureaucrats, are already wondering what the first false cyberflag attack on US soil will be.

Hacker arrested after cracking Federal Reserve

http://federalnewsradio.com/?nid=15&sid=2124738

http://federalnewsradio.com/?nid=15&sid=2124738

This one takes the prize for the week's bogus bullshit award.
This guy made all the banks trouble right..... bullshit
What surprises me though is the FED getting in on the action.
I think it's a massive case of CYA.
Why does the Defense Dept need to be hooked up to the Internet?
My mother ran every county tax there was for years and kept every record a county would keep on a computer, without ever being hooked to the Internet.
It's not the necessity that they want you to believe it is.
There was computer life well before the Internet!
This is about the net control issue.
Look what has happened with the TSA, people banded and gained together through the internet,
For the control issue that's a big time no no!




A federal grand jury has indicted a Malaysian citizen for allegedly hacking into a computer network at the Federal Reserve Bank and stealing more than 400,000 credit and debit card numbers. Federal prosecutors also allege Lin Mun Poo, 32, made a career of compromising systems at financial institutions, major corporations and defense contractors. They say he sold or traded the information he found. Also according to the Justice Department, "in approximately August 2010, he hacked into the computer system of a Department of Defense contractor that provides systems management for military transport and other military operations, potentially compromising highly sensitive military logistics information." Poo was arrested when he traveled to the U.S. in October. If convicted of the most serious charges, he faces up to 10 years in prison.