[Infowarrior] - Cyberwar, cyberespionage and media manipulation

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Cyberwar, cyberespionage and media manipulation
Posted by George Smith on 05/28/2013 :: Permalink 

If you've been following along it's no secret the US government and the national security industry have been waging an increasingly concerted campaign to increase cyber-defense spending. The lynchpin of the strategy is the relentless argument that Chinese hackers, under the guidance of its government and military, are into all American corporate business, military networks and the nation's infrastructure. Because of this catastrophe looms.

Another ploy in this orchestrated theatrical production arrived today in the guise of the Defense Science Board report, Resilient Military Systems and the Advanced Cyber Threat.

The report is here.

However, it is not the same report the Washington Post's Ellen Nakashima publicized in a big story on alleged deep Chinese cyberespionage directed against the US military and its arms manufacturers.

"Designs for many of the nation's most sensitive advanced weapons systems have been compromised by Chinese hackers, according to a report prepared for the Pentagon and to officials from government and the defense industry," writes Nakashima for the Post.

The Post's report never makes clear if classified information was taken. And it informs that internal US government discussion of some of the incidents with China is now over a year old.

What does seem to be secret, but in a selective way, is the Defense Science Board report.

The Post reporter delivers the information on Chinese cyber-espionage, writing that it comes from a "confidential" section of the report not included in the copy made generally available to the public.

One of the definitions for "confidential" in Merriam-Webster is "private, secret."

The public version of the DSB report contains only three instances of the word "China" and only one of "Chinese." "Espionage" appears only four times in the report's 146 .pdf pages.

What does this mean?

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http://sitrep.globalsecurity.org/articles/130528904-cyberwar-cyberespionage-and-me.htm

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