Over the past several years I have been warning about a potential false flag cyber attack. Now in today's news, the following gives more credence to my argument. Today the Pentagon has decided to interpret a cyber attack from a foreign state or nation as an act of war.Just as with any false flag, the cyber attack can and will be blamed on the countries of choice, by the Illuminati forces.
Whether it be China, N.Korea, Iran, Pakistan, or Venezuela, the false flag set up is in the works. I don't think they will blame China for any false flag, but China will become involved due to their support of the rest of the nation states I pointed out.
Pentagon: Cyber Attacks Can Count as Acts of War
Published May 31, 2011
The Wall Street Journal
Reuters
WASHINGTON – The Pentagon has concluded that computer sabotage coming from another country can constitute an act of war, a finding that for the first time opens the door for the U.S. to respond using traditional military force.
The Pentagon's first formal cyber strategy, unclassified portions of which are expected to become public next month, represents an early attempt to grapple with a changing world in which a hacker could pose as significant a threat to U.S. nuclear reactors, subways or pipelines as a hostile country's military.
In part, the Pentagon intends its plan as a warning to potential adversaries of the consequences of attacking the U.S. in this way. "If you shut down our power grid, maybe we will put a missile down one of your smokestacks," said a military official.
Recent attacks on the Pentagon's own systems—as well as the sabotaging of Iran's nuclear program via the Stuxnet computer worm—have given new urgency to U.S. efforts to develop a more formalized approach to cyber attacks. A key moment occurred in 2008, when at least one U.S. military computer system was penetrated. This weekend Lockheed Martin, a major military contractor, acknowledged that it had been the victim of an infiltration, while playing down its impact.
The report will also spark a debate over a range of sensitive issues the Pentagon left unaddressed, including whether the U.S. can ever be certain about an attack's origin, and how to define when computer sabotage is serious enough to constitute an act of war. These questions have already been a topic of dispute within the military.
One idea gaining momentum at the Pentagon is the notion of "equivalence." If a cyber attack produces the death, damage, destruction or high-level disruption that a traditional military attack would cause, then it would be a candidate for a "use of force" consideration, which could merit retaliation.
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UPDATE!!!
Gmail Accounts Compromised by Chinese Hackers, Google Says
Published June 01, 2011
FoxNews.com
REUTERS/Lucy Nicholson
http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2011/06/01/gmail-compromised-chinese-hackers-google-says/
Chinese hackers have infiltrated Google's Gmail system and broken into hundreds of accounts, including those of senior government officials and political activists, the company said.
Google says all victims have been notified and their accounts have been secured.
"Through the strength of our cloud-based security and abuse detection systems, we recently uncovered a campaign to collect user passwords, likely through phishing," wrote Eric Grosse, engineering director of Google's Security Team, in a post on the company blog.
"This campaign, which appears to originate from Jinan, China, affected what seem to be the personal Gmail accounts of hundreds of users including, among others, senior U.S. government officials, Chinese political activists, officials in several Asian countries (predominantly South Korea), military personnel and journalists."
The news comes a day after the Pentagon concluded that computer sabotage from another country could constitute an act of war -- news that opened the door for the first time to a traditional military response to a cyberattack.
The attacks aren't believed to be tied to a more sophisticated assault that originated from China in late 2009 and early 2010. That intrusion targeted Google's own security systems and triggered a high-profile battle with China's Communist government over online censorship.
The tensions escalated amid reports that the Chinese government had at least an indirect hand in the hacking attacks -- a possibility that Google didn't rule out.
In the latest incident, Google believes Chinese hackers tricked people into sharing their passwords in so-called "phishing" scams.
"The Internet has been an amazing force for good in the world -- opening up communications, boosting economic growth and promoting free expression," Grosse wrote.
"But like all technologies, it can also be used for bad things," he said.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
Google says all victims have been notified and their accounts have been secured.
"Through the strength of our cloud-based security and abuse detection systems, we recently uncovered a campaign to collect user passwords, likely through phishing," wrote Eric Grosse, engineering director of Google's Security Team, in a post on the company blog.
"This campaign, which appears to originate from Jinan, China, affected what seem to be the personal Gmail accounts of hundreds of users including, among others, senior U.S. government officials, Chinese political activists, officials in several Asian countries (predominantly South Korea), military personnel and journalists."
The news comes a day after the Pentagon concluded that computer sabotage from another country could constitute an act of war -- news that opened the door for the first time to a traditional military response to a cyberattack.
The attacks aren't believed to be tied to a more sophisticated assault that originated from China in late 2009 and early 2010. That intrusion targeted Google's own security systems and triggered a high-profile battle with China's Communist government over online censorship.
The tensions escalated amid reports that the Chinese government had at least an indirect hand in the hacking attacks -- a possibility that Google didn't rule out.
In the latest incident, Google believes Chinese hackers tricked people into sharing their passwords in so-called "phishing" scams.
"The Internet has been an amazing force for good in the world -- opening up communications, boosting economic growth and promoting free expression," Grosse wrote.
"But like all technologies, it can also be used for bad things," he said.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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