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    Do YOU know the difference between ...

    cyber crime and cyber warfare?

    This pdf describes the difference and discusses who is using the fear of cyber warfare as an excuse to censor and control the Internet in the US. Cyber crime far exceeds cyber warfare, which is responsible for only a few cases. The Google attack? It didn't come from China, it came from Miami via a VPN. Was China behind it? Only personal bias can say so. The supposed attack by China on the Military Network? It's not even connected to the Internet. It was infected by a thumb drive and there was no way for the infected machines to communicate back to the bad guys, who ever they were.

    It seems the cyber warfare "threat" is merely a political excuse to control the flow of news, information and entertainment on the Internet. The POTUS is being given the power to shutdown parts or all the Internet for any reason he/she deems sufficient for up to four months at a time, and nothing prevents the POTUS from keeping it closed indefinitely by merely repeating the excuse. You can count on web sites which are the sources of dissenting opinion or competing news information being shut down, while those with "IP content" and "official" news will be allowed to continue operating. For examples of this model of control consult the methods used by Cuba, China and Iran, and attempts by Chavez to follow them. Since Chavez controls the radio, TV, papers and the GUNS in his country he is sure to succeed in shutting down access to Twitter and other social networks which contain content he disagrees with.

    "A nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.”
    – John F. Kennedy, February 26, 1962.

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    So it's not enough for them to control CNN, they gotta take control over internet... and they just forget about European claims that they were the real makers of Internet in the first place...
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      and they just forget about European claims that they were the real makers of Internet in the first place...
      Were those European internet inventors working at Bolt, Beranek, and Newman in Cambridge, Massachusetts in the late 1950's and early 1960's? Does the name "Arpanet" ring a bell to you? Of course, you may be referring be to the proposal for the World Wide Web (which is only a part of the internet) by Tim Berners-Lee at CERN a decade or so later.

      All of which is off-topic to the question of whether the bad guys are in Pyongyang or Miami. My response would be both and a lot of other places in between. Anyone who has run "whois" searches on the people who try to spam this site knows that malware can come from anywhere and everywhere.

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        History of the Internet (Wikipedia)
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        "It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data." - Sherlock Holmes

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          Ack! The problem with being an old guy is getting decades mixed up.

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            Three terminals and an ARPA
            Main articles: RAND and ARPANET
            In the 1950s and early 1960s, before the widespread inter-networking that led to the Internet,
            Na, I think you had it correct.
            Windows no longer obstructs my view.
            Using Kubuntu Linux since March 23, 2007.
            "It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data." - Sherlock Holmes

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