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U.S. concludes ‘Cyber Storm’ mock attacks

By TED BRIDIS
ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER

WASHINGTON — The government concluded its "Cyber Storm" wargame Friday, its biggest-ever exercise to test how it would respond to devastating attacks over the Internet from anti-globalization activists, underground hackers and bloggers.

Bloggers?

Participants confirmed parts of the worldwide simulation challenged government officials and industry executives to respond to deliberate misinformation campaigns and activist calls by Internet bloggers, online diarists whose "Web logs" include political rantings and musings about current events.

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  1. [...] The speech is called “New Realities in the Media Age.” on the danger of the freedom of information exchange made possible by satellite TV and the internet. It’s hard to create enemies and destroy them when everyone who feels like it can blog your every fascist move. The fact that the Secretary of Defense worries about the internet worries me. [...]

    Posted by Stress » Blog Archive » Rumsfeld at the CFR | February 18, 2006, 8:09 am

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