Air Force manual describes shadowy cyberwar world
 

What got my attention!! Is the part that say "The manual points out that much of the Internet's hardware and software are produced and distributed by private vendors in other countries who "can be influenced by adversaries to provide altered products that have built-in vulnerabilities, such as modified chips." Here the manual link in pdf. http://www.e-publishing.af.mil/share...s/AFDD3-12.pdf

...which is a major reason why China developed their own CPU.

http://www.maximumpc.com/article/new...hallenge_intel

This is just policy from the air force and it's targeted specifically at educating servicemen (so far as I can tell).

There are a lot of classified papers regarding cyber warfare tactics and logistics. I believe some have been released, in heavily redacted form, that give much better insight into the reach of the gubernment in a shit-hitting-fan scenario.

A choice bit on pg. 35

wow

If you believe any system does not have at least one backdoor built in for dev, support, security, oh shit, or government purposes you are silly. My cousin works for Lockheed Martin, and he made a few interesting comments on the latest cyber attack on the Iranian nuclear facility.


If a system has a kernel level listening port that only responds to a specific IP source, key, and port number out of all the ports, IP's, and keys you could generate do you think they would have found it by now? Hell no.

You'd be surprised how much Telecom grade gear comes out of Israel. For such a tiny little country, the produce TONNES of digital cross-connect, muxers...

All i will say is "Its not what you think"