N.Y. Times Endorses Cyberwarfare Pentagon New Strategy Signaling China, Russia, Iran, North Korea That Despite Cybermilitarization Concerns U.S. Is Prepared To Retaliate Against Cyberattacks With Cyberwarfare Capability

     Tuesday, 28 April 2015, NEW YORK, NY - The New York Times entire editorial board today endorses in the face of a "top national security threat" the Pentagon's newly released 33-page cybersecurity strategy (the "Strategy") in the absence of any meaningful comprehensive action by the Republican-controlled Congress on which President Obama has "given up" to address what U.S. Defense Secretary Ashton Carter last week warned were cyberthreats "increasing in severity and sophistication".
     Some of the most notable recent cyberintrusions have been made by Russia into the Pentagon, State Department and White House as well as by North Korea in its 2014 corporate attack on Sony Pictures. A Russian White House attack last year although reportedly "only" into the White House unclassified computer system collected data including President Obama's email correspondence and in fact was "more intrusive and worrisome" than has been publicly acknowledged serving as a "chilling example" of the potential for deep penetration by cyberadversaries into government computers.  
     The Strategy in addition to being intended to send a warning directly to demonstrated cyberadversaries China, Russia, Iran and North Korea also lays out a broad framework for a comprehensive cyberdefense system responding to cyberthreats and cyberattacks on a scaled basis first by private business alone, in more serious cases with government assistance to private businesses from the Department of Homeland Security, in more serious cases yet by existing network defenses and law enforcement agencies such as the F.B.I. and finally in the most serious cases under order of the President the U.S. military could conduct operations to counter and presumably launch full U.S. cybersecurity retaliatory attacks to cause serious disruption, damage and destruction to adversaries' cybercapabilities with weapons now being developed in response to an "imminent or threatened attack against the U.S. homeland or U.S. interests in cyberspace".
     Threats of "cybermilitarization" as raised here in recent previous posts including the potential for further serious unacceptable unconstitutional threats to the American people's privacy rights remain a concern although unlike the Congressional "cybersecurity" bill reported on recently here which on its face appeared to focus most on immunizing private business from liability the Strategy announced by the Pentagon apparently does not address that subject with its focus as expected and appropriate being directly on United States national cybersecurity interests. How "cybermilitarization" and concomitant privacy invasion concerns are addressed should be scrutinized as more particulars of the Strategy develop the public release of which is noted to be a belated welcome step toward government "transparency" in this critical area of the greatest importance to business and the public such that these and other concerns must be meaningfully addressed in the Strategy's implementation.
     The Strategy's framework as solidified must address the coordination and various federal entities with current U.S. cybersecurity responsibilities including the National Security Agency, the Department of Homeland Security, the Central Intelligence Agency, the F.B.I. and the Pentagon. Considering the prominence given it with a photograph atop the below linked article and the sole mention of a federal agency in the recently proposed Congressional "cybersecuirty" bill being to it as well it would appear that significant cybersecurity information and response coordination responsibilities will fall with the previously obscure National Cybersecurity and Communications Integration Center in Arlington, Virginia.
     In addition to the great number of cybersecurity workers currently employed by the government the Strategy is expected  in coming years to increase military cybersecurity employment to 6,200 workers and cost billions of dollars annually. Readers interested in more information can go to the below link which also includes in it a direct link to the text of the 33-page Strategy publicly released by the Pentagon.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/28/opinion/preparing-for-warfare-in-cyberspace.html

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Airliner Hacker Hysteria Years-Old Story Planted By FBI Site "Airline Notice" On Day Of Expected Congress Cybersecurity Vote For Internet Militarization

     Thursday, 23 April 2015, WASHINGTON, D.C. - It comes as no surprise to the Ninth Amendment and readers of its recent posts which include the "Internet 'Militarization' Threat" post here of last Sunday, 19 April 2015 that the U.S. Government right on schedule yesterday on the expected day of the full Congressional House on the so-called "cybersecurity" bill vote eagerly awaited by corporate U.S. business to be "immunized" and the U.S. civilian and military "intelligence" community potentially greatly (legally) to expand its surveillance of and amassing of untold further amounts of private consumer information already largely compromised as revealed by Edward Snowden and others as to the NSA, took the occasion to fan public hysteria over alleged "cyberthreats" including the apparently recently coined "cyberjihad" most directly through the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) yesterday posting on the FBI's previously unknown "private airliner notification" feature of its FBI website nevertheless available for all to see and dutifully picked up by the media as in the BBC Technology News article linked to below a warning that airliner onboard wi-fi systems "might theoretically" be compromised by a hacker. This is by no means even remotely breaking but more along the lines of archival "news" if that noun even is appropriate.

     Any report of a notice from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) which regulates the airline industry also has been oddly absent from news reports. In any case the FBI notice advised airlines to perform reports and reviews concerning listed "suspicious activity" that airlines presumably already would be doing since "[a]irline experts have warned for years that airlines are a potential target for hackers". The reason for the notice and suspected apparent attempt to further fan immediate public hysteria about "cyberthreats" on the day of the Congressional "cybersecurity" bill vote was implied to be tied to a virtual non-incident concerning an onboard United Airlines "tweet" last week by private security expert Chris Roberts making a joke in which he "suggested that he might be able to deploy the oxygen masks on the flight".

     The media dutifully has greatly expanded on this incident reported right on schedule that "[a] terrorist theoretically could take over systems that fly a plane by compromising equipment at their seat". However the report also notes that "[t]he FBI and the Transportation Safety Administration (TSA) (ed. note - which TSA perhaps is best known for its agents knowingly having allowed passengers to take guns and suitcases of illegal drugs aboard planes for cash and small gifts and more recently allegedly for 'groping' passengers) said they had no information to support claims a plane's information system could be interfered [sic] via its onboard wi-fi kit, but they were evaluating the evidence". Hopefully the FBI and TSA (not to mention the FAA and other federal agencies) have already been "evaluating" the hypothetical threat for some time as Mr. Roberts previously has given multiple public interviews including on CNN expressing his concerns (and presumably publicizing his private security company) in which he already "explained" weak points in airliners stating that one might conceivably hook up a computer under one's seat to "monitor" data from three of the onboard airline systems.

     Whatever the case Mr. Roberts co-founder of private security company One World Labs following the perpetration of his "tweet" last week was questioned by the FBI which "seized" his laptop computer and unidentified other devices (see previous Ninth Amendment posts for information on the very remote chance of getting back any "seized" items and cash from the government). United Airlines subsequently denied Mr. Roberts boarding to his flight to Seattle and banned him from all United flights so he now in punishment will need to travel by air on another airline. 

     Following last week's Mr. Roberts "tweet" incident security expert Bruce Schneier had explained " [t]he risk is a hacker sitting in the back of a plane, or even one on the ground, could use the wi-fi connection to hack into the plane's avionics and then fly the plane". He went on the the explain that no vulnerabilities to hackers were "currently" known but noted that such an attack was "theoretically possible" as all networks were "inherently insecure". Most significantly news reports rather downplayed that Mr. Schneier finally "added" that "[i]n the scheme of internet risks I worry about, its not very high".

     History would strongly suggest that the federal government (the State) here seized on the opportunity to take the occasion yesterday of the expected Congressional vote on the rushed through committee "cybersecurity" bill unconscionably to fan public fear and manipulate the People of this country over an apparent businessman's publicity stunt using an unjustified extraordinary action by the FBI and TSA (of all agencies) that could only serve needlessly to fan public hysteria over some specific remote act of "terrorism" when there undoubtedly are more pressing concerns at hand which this type of action can only serve dangerously to discount.

     It is well worth and in fact extremely important to recall at such times that from likely centuries before the time of the "Gulf of Tonkin" Congressional resolution over a totally phony incident which nevertheless drew the U.S. into the years-long nightmarish quagmire of what the military officially terms the "Vietnam conflict" since no war ever constitutionally has been declared since WWII up to and doubtless even beyond the known exploitation of public and even lawmakers' hysteria over the more recent extraordinary horrors of the 9/11 attacks and complicating subsequent anthrax scares which even had extended to the Capitol building all of which lead directly to the surreal passage of the blatantly unconstitutional last-minute ink still wet on the page unreviewed by Congress dangerously rambling laundry wish list of the illegitimate Bush Administration's worst civil liberties nightmares come true cynically misnamed "Patriot Act" that the State will exploit public fears and even create them and fan subsequent hysteria to achieve approval of extraordinary powers for the State to which it is not entitled under the U.S. Constitution and which the People in more reasoned times would not even purport to grant to the State when under the existing text of the Constitution the powers are not legitimate and therefore invalid and void as a competent U.S. Supreme Court should recognize as its sacrosanct duty under our system of government.

     In conclusion the so-called "cybersecurity" bill appears entirely objectionable on its face and in any case must be subjected to much more widespread public scrutiny than some behind-closed-doors deal between the Obama White House and Republican congresspersons before its passage by the Senate and signing into law by the President and as for the filthy piece of trash advanced by individuals who no longer even support its interpretations said to justify State abuses abhorrent to all founding principles of this republic the misnamed "Patriot Act" President Obama must not yet again betray his supporters who believed in and elected him by his once again routinely rubber-stamping out "sunset" provisions of this Bush Administration rotten legacy but on 1 June 2015 it is well past the time President Obama must allow the obviously unconstitutional and widely misused Section 215 and other provisions of the repulsive misnamed "Patriot Act" set to expire to lapse back into oblivion and most certainly not abdicate his duty only to relinquish this power to make such a critical decision to the following presidential administration.

     Without editorial comment the Ninth Amendment directs readers interested in more information on the above to the link below.   

http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-32411491

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Corporate Internet Militarization "Cybersecurity" Bill Expected Today To Pass House As Obama White House Abandons Concerns Over Consumer Privacy

     Wednesday, 22 September 2015, WASHINGTON, D.C. - The House of Representatives today with virtually no public scrutiny but significant "intelligence" community excitement is expected to rush through with widespread congressional support and no debate (much like the disastrously unconstitutional Patriot Act) a so-called "cybersecurity" corporate immunity bill introduced by its "engineer" former C.I.A. Texas freshman Republian congressman Will Hurd along with fellow Texas freshman Republican congressman John Heath which bill grants businesses dangerously broad liability protections granting corporate immunity for sharing unlimited cyberdata with other businesses as well as corporate immunity for launching private "counterattacks" which may threaten any consumer's (i.e., the People's) personal private computers and mobile devices including phones if the business "suspects" itself to be the target of hackattacks.
     Information further will be shared with a "civilian agency" The New York Times assures readers which actually as detailed in the Sunday, 19 April 2015 Internet "Militarizaton" post here is the rather sinister-sounding "obscure" National Cybersecurity and Communications Integration Center which information first will have been double "scurbbed" once by the company and once by the above "civilian" government agency of Americans' personal information before passing it on to the NSA and the Department of Defense presumably through the Air Force Cyber Security Command and then eventually any other government agency that claims some need for it although such information alone can not be the grounds for some government enforcement action presumably should some personal privacy consumer information "leak through.
     (In an admitted aside The Ninth Amendment notes that the American people have come to be known principally as "consumers" rather than "citizens" or "We The People" in the extremely limited but most powerful corporate conception of the paramount purpose of civilization as a monetary profit endeavor when as here the dwindling protections of our fundamental rights are once again under attack from State and corporate encroachments on our civil liberties. The Ninth Amendment editorial board suggests this is yet another example of the "corporate creep" which not only has bought and/or is buying the State but deeply infiltrating and dominating the very terms at the foundations of its discourse with intended pre-ordained dangerously misdirected disastrous consequences.)
     The White House has abandoned earlier serious privacy and other constitutional concerns as raised by the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and many other civil liberties groups. Meanwhile the federal government exploits its recent attempts to fan Americans' hysteria over isolated incidents and conveniently timed dire warnings implicating cybersecurity threats which largely are not even understood technically up to and including "cyberjihadists" although it is unclear why such an individual or group would want to target for example consumer credit card information rather than the United States infrastructure presumably hopefully already a focus of all available cybersecurity safeguards.
     At the time the bill recently was in a day rushed through the House Homeland Security Committee Republican chairman Michael McCaul another Texan allegedly the "chief architect" of the bill while "working with the White House" found it necessary to inform committee members immediately before voting that "American companies are under siege" and threw in that President Obama's White House "unclassified but sensitive" unpublished schedule had been acquired (Anyone can sign up or daily White House emails providing the President's "published" schedule although it is unclear what this had to do with granting widespread potentially blanket immunity from prosecution to companies for violating Americans privacy or "counterattacking" their cyberdevices. 
     In a shockingly sympathetic virtually cheerleading "cbersecurity" bill article reporting that only some Senate timing issues may slow up immediate passage of the bill The New York Times article linked to below further asserts that "White House passage of the Bill is not in question". (And The Ninth Amendment believed it already had staked out "All The News Before It Even Happens".) The White House which last Congressional term "mustered strong opposition" to the House bill because "it would jeopardize the privacy rights" of consumers has caved completely to continuing intense "intelligence" community and Department of Defense pressure eager to get their hands on the data. Reportedly a House Intelligence Committee Republican aide said that "the President has come our way". Unbelievably yesterday's last comments on the bill from the White House focused exclusively on concerns that business liability immunities were so broad as to potentially "backfire" on businesses afraid presumably for their own privacy about reporting "cyberthreats" as well as launching immunized corporate cyberattacks to "punish" competitors.
     Even in abandoning all real concerns about the rights of the People including to their already vastly unconstitutionally State invaded privacy rights and other civil liberties at least the Obama White House instead now has expressed its "deep concern" about threats posed by the proposed corporate Internet "militarization" bill to the privacy concerns of corporations now potentially free to go to cyberwar with one another as well as the American people. Readers interested in more information about the above can go to The New York Times link below. Readers interested in a significantly more in-depth analysis of the bill and its origins may can go if not previously to the Sunday, 19 April 2015 post here on "Internet Militarization" and/or directly to the to The San Antonio Express-News article at the second linked to below which as previously noted is not accessible in its entirety to non-subscribers to that publication unless they subscribe at least to a free two week digital subscription which by no means is meant as a promotion or endorsement of that publication here. 

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/23/us/politics/computer-attacks-spur-congress-to-act-on-cybersecurity-bill-years-in-making.html?_r=0

http://www.expressnews.com/news/local/article/Cybersecurity-bill-could-let-companies-trade-info-6208429.php

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Cyberattack webchat.freenode.net Failed URL Referrals Ninth Amendment Site Access Denial Attempts Recorded And Reported

       Wednesday, 11 June 2014, HOUSTON, TEXAS - The editorial board of the Ninth Amendment hereby alerts readers that in the wake of record numbers of diverse readers' pageviews of this site in the past day(s) the Ninth Amendment again has been hit by an unprecedented number of referrals from a site URL now identified as that of or related to webchat.freenode.net which never before in seven years has referred any traffic to the Ninth Amendment. Originally an England and Wales PDPC open source IRC project obscuring the identity of originating server unique information founded and directed by Rob Levin the project later reportedly was cyberattacked by a group identifying itself as the "Gay Nigger Association of America".
       Mr. Levin then after being "discredited" for diverting funds for personal needs such as rent and transportation from webchat.freenode.net reportedly was struck on his bicycle at night by an automobile in a hit-and-run accident in Houston, Texas on 12 September 2006 and died four days later on 16 September 2006 resulting from injuries he sustained as a result of this criminal act.
       Houston where the rich pay tolls not to wait in miles of standstill traffic conceals the low-profile Texas home of former WWII flyer President George Herbert Walker Bush who reportedly plummets from an airplane way high up in the sky to mark his 90th birthday today like former C.I.A. flight "guests" except presumably deploying a parachute and not first machine-gunning any humans in distress on the earth below. The man who has had more advanced birthdays than a great many he has known now simply is "41" in the inner sanctums of the "Crypt", the "Bohemian Grove", the Dallas "Triple Underpass" and once "Carousel Club", the "Company", the "Bush-bin Laden Family Oil Investment Club", the defunct Iraqi "Officers' Club", the "Thousand Points of Blight" Fan Club, the hallowed chambers of both the "Pink" and the "White House" including Situation Room and tap-dancing Portico, other diverse places such as those short on print space, and now on upcoming CNN Specials.
       "41" distinguishes one-term Bush from son George W. "little shrub" who served two terms as "President" following President Clinton after having never been elected by either the popular nor electoral vote. After a nudge in the right direction to the proper partisan election officials by brother Jeb who happened to be Governor of the state of Florida in question "41" then sailed to his Presidential "appointment" directly without consultation or hesitation in one day by the Supreme Court which is after all the final arbiter of the "true meaning" of the Constitution answerable to no one but In God We Trust who exercises Her will if not sooner then later after its members' lifetime tenures end in body, mind or both. Now the new "43" might occasionally go to work at the office while his other non-Florida Governor brother had the contract to provide overall WTC site security until 11 September 2001 the horrific day when that arrangement when put to the test did not work out.
       Dick "Pigheart" Cheney immediately when the possible scope of the national threat was figured out in a matter of less than hours already had first taken charge by sending "43" back on the same exact street route off to the Florida airport to share the U.S. skies empty except with rest of the bin Laden family and ensconce himself Cheney in the President's position in the White House Situation Room. Cheney later sent "43" to New York with a yellow hardhat and a bullhorn made to stand in the rising fumes of the pile of still smoldering and burning toxic waste at "Ground Zero" encouraging dedicated rescue workers and volunteers to root around in the hazardous debris.
       With Bush departed the entire crime scene including all forensic evidence plus all unlocated bodily remains (a la JFK, Waco, etc.) swiftly was bulldozed, dumptrucked and shipped off in a huge parade of massive barges across the Pacific Ocean to be dumped, buried and covered in a mainland China landfill filling daily with billions of people's garbage never to be seen again. Later in the early evening of 9/11 workers at Towers 1 and 2 watched in awe as distant WTC7 which reportedly had been untouched by heat or flame nor any significant debris at all simply collapsed without warning like the Twin Towers perfectly dropping into its own footprint floors falling at a freefall rate consistent with full gravitational force not even slowed by the previously intervening structure which sequentially disintegrated ahead of the freefall to earth.
       Bush the Elder is the namesake of the George Herbert Walker Bush Center For National Intelligence and International Assassinations And Petting Zoo aka C.I.A. Headquarters in Langley, Virginia. Houston also reportedly is refuge to Dick "Pigheart" Cheney who rarely if ever has been seen alive in the public light for years presumably still busy re-counting his cash amassed while "serving" part-time as alleged Vice-President of the United States hunched over the bill counters he had cconfiscated from Scarface.
       Ninth Amendment research staff further have traced pageview hits to a suburban Washington, D.C. area commonly known as the "Hub city" for its strategic location at a convergence of transportation and other networks as well as former home to rumored CIA-connected former Fairchild Aircraft. Fairchild Aircraft subsequently moved operations to San Antonio, Texas where it was allegedly bought by Israeli defense contractor Elbin Systems and renamed M7 Aerospace where it operates on the grounds of the San Antonio International Airport (SAT). Interested readers are encouraged to pursue readers' own follow-up research on this preliminary information.

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