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Showing posts with label cyber war. Show all posts
Showing posts with label cyber war. Show all posts
Tuesday, April 09, 2024
Monday, April 08, 2024
Today's Ryan
I don't know that we're paying enough attention to this. The Russians' Facebook campaign in 2016 kinda sneaked up on us, and it's more than a bit probable that the same thing is at work across the social media universe.
Tuesday, February 26, 2019
Fighting Back
In spite of 45*'s insistence on never getting in Uncle Walt's way, we can log our first real win here in World War IV - which is really just the second OT period of WW2.
Anyway, if we use the tried-n-true method of comparing every-fuckin-thing with WW2 (like what I just did), then this might be something along the lines of Doolittle's raid on Tokyo. It had no real tactical impact, and it's not widely known in spite of getting a nice media splash, but it'll prob'ly be remembered as a Morale Booster, and as such, a nice little turning point in our overall effort.
Or not.
It seems like we're still not exactly catching fire with any of this shit - especially considering that about half of Americans still don't even know who the fuck Bob Mueller is, much less what he's doing.
But hey - progress is progress.
WaPo ran this today, by Ellen Nakashima:
The U.S. military blocked Internet access to an infamous Russian entity seeking to sow discord among Americans during the 2018 midterms, several U.S. officials said, a warning that the group’s operations against the United States are not cost-free.
The strike on the Internet Research Agency in St. Petersburg, a company underwritten by an oligarch close to President Vladimir Putin, was part of the first offensive cyber campaign against Russia designed to thwart attempts to interfere with a U.S. election, the officials said.
“They basically took the IRA offline,” according to one individual familiar with the matter who, like others, spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss classified information. “They shut ‘em down.”
The operation marked the first muscle-flexing by U.S. Cyber Command, with intelligence from the National Security Agency, under new authorities it was granted by President Trump and Congress last year to bolster offensive capabilities.
Whether the impact of the St. Petersburg action will be long-lasting remains to be seen. Russia’s tactics are evolving, and some analysts were skeptical of the deterrent value on either the Russian troll factory or on Putin, who, according to U.S. intelligence officials, ordered an “influence” campaign in 2016 to undermine faith in U.S. democracy. U.S. officials have also assessed that the Internet Research Agency works on behalf of the Kremlin.
“Such an operation would be more of a pinprick that is more annoying than deterring in the long run,” said Thomas Rid, a strategic studies professor at Johns Hopkins University, who was not briefed on the details.
But some U.S. officials argued that “grand strategic deterrence” is not always the goal. “Part of our objective is to throw a little curve ball, inject a little friction, sow confusion,” said one defense official. “There’s value in that. We showed what’s in the realm of the possible. It’s not the old way of doing business anymore.”
Anyway, if we use the tried-n-true method of comparing every-fuckin-thing with WW2 (like what I just did), then this might be something along the lines of Doolittle's raid on Tokyo. It had no real tactical impact, and it's not widely known in spite of getting a nice media splash, but it'll prob'ly be remembered as a Morale Booster, and as such, a nice little turning point in our overall effort.
Or not.
It seems like we're still not exactly catching fire with any of this shit - especially considering that about half of Americans still don't even know who the fuck Bob Mueller is, much less what he's doing.
But hey - progress is progress.
WaPo ran this today, by Ellen Nakashima:
The U.S. military blocked Internet access to an infamous Russian entity seeking to sow discord among Americans during the 2018 midterms, several U.S. officials said, a warning that the group’s operations against the United States are not cost-free.
The strike on the Internet Research Agency in St. Petersburg, a company underwritten by an oligarch close to President Vladimir Putin, was part of the first offensive cyber campaign against Russia designed to thwart attempts to interfere with a U.S. election, the officials said.
“They basically took the IRA offline,” according to one individual familiar with the matter who, like others, spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss classified information. “They shut ‘em down.”
The operation marked the first muscle-flexing by U.S. Cyber Command, with intelligence from the National Security Agency, under new authorities it was granted by President Trump and Congress last year to bolster offensive capabilities.
Whether the impact of the St. Petersburg action will be long-lasting remains to be seen. Russia’s tactics are evolving, and some analysts were skeptical of the deterrent value on either the Russian troll factory or on Putin, who, according to U.S. intelligence officials, ordered an “influence” campaign in 2016 to undermine faith in U.S. democracy. U.S. officials have also assessed that the Internet Research Agency works on behalf of the Kremlin.
“Such an operation would be more of a pinprick that is more annoying than deterring in the long run,” said Thomas Rid, a strategic studies professor at Johns Hopkins University, who was not briefed on the details.
But some U.S. officials argued that “grand strategic deterrence” is not always the goal. “Part of our objective is to throw a little curve ball, inject a little friction, sow confusion,” said one defense official. “There’s value in that. We showed what’s in the realm of the possible. It’s not the old way of doing business anymore.”
Tuesday, November 14, 2017
Love Her Hate Her Whatever
Donna Brazile is well known for two things: losing elections, and standing in the wreckage yelling, "We was robbed!"
But she knows things. She had a front row seat last fall. The bit about the Russians (starting about 28:30) is very interesting and way fuckin' scary.
And never mind the fact that she takes a nice big dump on the Press Poodles for being lazy enough to buy into the Follow-The-Popular-Drift bullshit (thank you, Donna). Way too many of the big news outlets here in USAmerica Inc are operating on the Show Biz model, where the coverage is guided by what's trending on social media instead of what's real and/or important.
Flocks of Bots (many, if not most, of which are controlled the Russkies) are practically dictating what we do and where we go - and they're very useful for "winning" elections.
Automated Rapid Response on a hyper-industrialized level.
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