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Former CIA official draws parallels between terrorism, cyber-threats

article published on 3 August, 2011

Former counter-terrorism official warns that same sceptical mindset is being applied to cyber-attacks. Speaking at the Black Hat conference, former CIA counter-terrorism official Cofer Black recalled the attitude toward al Queda by the United States in the 1990s. He described it as a biased view that while Osama bin Laden was known to fund terrorism, his network did not initiate attacks itself. ... [ read the full article ]

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_ 		4. August 2011 @ 00:27 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
"Black said that Stuxnet was an example of cyber-warfare carried out by a nation"

Yes...it Stuxnet is just like terrorism...and he would know...because he was a part of the government that created it.
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_ 		4. August 2011 @ 20:06 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
What could the attempt to link terrorism to so many things, do for the government? Hmm... I wonder.
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_ 		5. August 2011 @ 04:26 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
the government obviously wants everything classed as terrorism so they can lock people up for longer without a trial and treat them badly.If they can prove someone is a terrorist and is killing millions of people shoot that in the head (like they did to bin laden).No point in locking them up for years at tax payers expense and torturing them (like they did to david hicks).
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_ 		5. August 2011 @ 09:48 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
He is a blow hard and isn't putting blame where it belongs on his own court. 911 they knew was going to happen or they should have as they had the intel. It was a breakdown and politics within the many organizations that caused them to fail at prevention. This is nothing new the same thing happened back prior to Pearl Harbor where the US had intel that an attack was imminent but again nothing was done. History repeats and we seem to never learn from it, what a shame. But when you want to keep your job and you have screwed up point your finger everywhere other than at yourself in order to keep your job.
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