(Make sure to read the comment after the post.)
Check this out. How much did this cost? While these paranoids are worrying about multiple simultaneous hacker attacks, the dollar is collapsing, severe weather events are becoming more intense and more numerous, and the Constitution is being rolled up and placed in toilet paper dispensers everywhere.
From the article linked above:
Imagined villains include hackers, bloggers and even reporters. After mock electronic attacks overwhelmed computers at the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, an unspecified "major news network" airing reports about the attackers refused to reveal its sources to the government. Other simulated reporters were duped into spreading "believable but misleading" information that worsened fallout by confusing the public and financial markets, according to the government's files.
Bloggers and reporters are villains? Yeah, well, they'll get my blog when they pry it from my cold, dead fingers. Morons.
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Let me elaborate
Of course it's important to protect against cracks to critical systems, but the best way to do that is... well, to hire the best people to protect against cracks and mitigate the damage when they occur (and they do and they will, all the time, as any halfway competent sysadmin anywhere can tell you), NOT to pay a bunch of (apparently) technologically illiterate bureaucrats to e-mail each other different paranoid scenarios.
Before we get our panties in a bunch over a bunch of evil bloggers, reporters, and zit-faced Russian/Chinese crackers, maybe we should look at the real fucking world, guys (and you just know this was a bunch of guys -- really dumb guys with crew cuts -- that carried out the sim in question) and the very real threats in it such as last summer's Great Subway Flood. I mean, I'm just sayin'. What might happen in a hurricane if a little rain can cause the entire subway system to shut down? Hey, I've got an idea to make us all safer and more secure: How about hiring some engineers and workers to fix the very real things that obviously need fixing instead of paying a bunch of idiots to fret about how vicious reporters (and, even worse, bloggers gasp! ) could destroy All That Is Good and Holy. Worrying about hackers and bloggers and hacks (oh my) when the fucking world is crumbling beneath your feet and in front of your eyes... shiiit, how ass-styupid kin y' git!!!.
As a taxpayer, it pisses me off that people far dumber than I (and I'm damn sure not the smartest guy in the world) apparently rule the world. How the hell did that happen?
Three frickin' inches of snow
I awoke this morning to a pleasant surprise -- three inches of snow with some falling lightly. Pretty, pretty snow -- my favorite weather event. Turned on the TV to see that subway lines have closed, busses aren't running, major delays and cancellations at all area airports, schools closed. Schools are closed?!? For three inches, maybe a total of five when all is said and done?!? Shit, when I was a youngster, we ate three friggin' inches of snow for breakfast! What the fuck is going on here? What happens when three feet falls?
Maybe if we stopped paying the NYPD (nothing against the NYPD, by the way -- they do a fine job) overtime to play Homeland Security Zoom-Zoom (New Yorkers know what I'm talking about -- that vast daily annoying parade of sirens at 1:00 in the afternoon every single day. Couldn't we do the parade of sirens thing, I don't know, monthly or even quarterly? Wouldn't that be adequate training?) and instead, I don't know, hired a few more snowplow drivers, this kind of shit wouldn't happen.
The next president and Congress should disband the Department of Homeland Security, the biggest waste of taxpayer money in the federal budget. Cops, spies, and the military will protect us from the cavemen in Afghanistan. We need that $60 billion a year for other things.
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