IDF Hackers Test Readiness In Israel For Cyberattacks 61
cold fjord points out a profile in Al-Monitor of Israel's cyber-defense group, formed to test the country's defenses to electronic warfare and information theft. Groups, really, since it's run blue-vs-red style, with constant scenario preparation and intrusion attempts. The two (anonymized) leaders of the Blue and Red teams talk about the mind-set and skills that it takes to be in their unit, which they point out is not the place for soda and pizza hijinks. Says "Capt. A": "We are constantly preparing for the next war or the next drill. And in between, we may have some fun dissecting the system and drawing conclusions together. The idea is to instruct the monitoring bodies, [and] to make them understand what they should look for and how to respond."
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Really?
a large crystal occurring at the base of a snowpack
or
a fictional Faerûnian deity in Dungeons & Dragons
Balanced attack (Score:2)
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Being born in the purple was a great honor in Byzantium.
In other words (Score:2, Insightful)
They're spying on us again, not that they ever stopped. This isn't a 'drill'. It's thinly disguised espionage. But, since we're 'on the same side', it's all okay.
Re:In other words (Score:5, Insightful)
Jeezes, you have a depth of -1mm. Spying serves a very useful function. It prevents surprises. It was put to good use during the Cold War. The Soviet Union could see what the U.S. was doing and visa versa. It prevent stupid things from happening based on no information or false information. Who cares if Israel spies on the U.S. The U.S. spies on Israel. It helps both side calibrate their actions.
The US and israel cooperate more than anything (Score:2)
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The US government definitely DOES NOT trust Israel and most especially not its spy agency. Otherwise, why do you think Jonathan Pollard is in prison? Why was Lawrence Franklin charged with espionage?
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Correction: The US government doesn't like it when spies catch them doing something that they shouldn't be doing. In which case they go after said spies. After all, when you know who the spy is, sometimes it's useful to just feed them a bit.
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...why do you think Jonathan Pollard is in prison?
He was sloppy. He damn near exposed the operation.
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The U.S. government cares. Every government also has an interest in controlling what other governments know about what they are doing and thinking.
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I don't give a damn what governments do to each other. They all bicker with each other, and we are in the crossfire. The problem is that governments conduct their espionage against the citizens. When I said us, I meant us.. This is the "cold war" we are living in now.
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I'll take their word for it that they and every other sigint agency around the world ALSO do intrusion drills against their own systems to see how well they work at foiling external adversaries, such as China, Russia, France, Germany, Great Britain and the USA, and whether they can tell anything about what's hidden in the systems they can't penetrate or that they only THINK they have penetrated.
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I think you may want to comment on the actual article, rather than the summary. eg.
Great. (Score:2)
cold fjord points out a profile
Great, now even blatant shills are submitting content.
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Although it is a great story, your comment seems to indicate that you may be suffering from NSA story fatigue. Maybe you will enjoy one of the other fine stories recently submitted by Cold Fjord instead of this one. Have fun!
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Cold Fjord, is that you?
hello cold fjord. (Score:1)
great content from israel's #1 fan cold fjord (Score:2)
Re: great content from israel's #1 fan cold fjord (Score:3, Informative)
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You are deluding yourself if you believe that Iraq in the 80s or Egypt anywhere during the last couple decades would be able to do anything like what you suggest without US knowledge and support.
There was a promising initiative by Turkey and Brazil toward a nuke free Middle East, but it was shot down by the USG because of course Israel can't be expected to do precisely what everyone is demanding of Iran.
The US is in no position to wave the NPT in anyone's face seeing as they provide know how and materials t
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So you are blaming the US for a problem started by the Soviet Union, continued by Egypt, and made worse when the Egyptians spread chemical weapons to Iraq and Syria
Are their other guily parties? Sure. All I was saying is that a military dictatorship such as the Egyptians used to suffer, which was completely dependent on US diplomatic and military support (and likely still is, since the latest military coup) would never dream of doing any dealings that would offend their, eh, benefactor. Besides, did you forget that the US were squarely on the Iraqi side of that whole Iraq-Iran debacle?
Did Turkey and Brazil intended to do anything about the chemical weapons?
No, because it was an initiative for a Middle East without nuclear weapons.
Well, neither idea was going to go anywhere. Iraq wouldn't have bought in. Iran wouldn't have bought in either. There are probably other countries that wouldn't have bought in, such as Syria. .
The Turk
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Repeating Big Lies doesn't make them true, it just makes you a bigger liar. Because even the IDF and Pentagon [pbs.org] will tell you Iran doesn't actually have the nuclear weapons program that both countries are threatening to bomb Iran for having.
But even if Iran was pursuing nuclear weapons, that would be the "repercussion" for Israel's 200+ nuclear warheads.
conspiracy theorists, no. (Score:2)