Suitcase Nuke 7.0

[skyhook77sfg]

The New York Times stirred up a huge amount of excitement about the so-called "Internet in a suitcase." The idea is that a relatively small amount of equipment could be parachuted (either literally or figuratively) into a region where one force is suppressing the ability of the general public to communicate using the Net. This is our newest tool for global information sharing.

It's very James Bond sounding, which is why it's caught people's imagination, and it's very timely with the events in Libya, Egypt, and Syria--which has become the latest nation to try to strangle communications to quell a popular uprising. But while James Bond's Q-Division gadgets were no more than special effects, the Net in a suitcase uses some very interesting tech.

The Net was actually born from some Cold War thinking in DARPA about how to protect digital assets and communications from attack--its distributed design is supposed to make the whole computer-to-computer network survivable even if one link or several is severed in some kind of attack. But as we've learned over the last several months, if you've got access to important critical points in the network, like the ISPs that channel data into a nation via just a few key pinch points (like the main international data cables) then you can shut off the network, or at least parts of it that are important to you. That's because the Net uses central "hubs" to share data out to "spokes," and, to stretch the metaphor a little, if you take out the hub then you disable the entire wheel.

The Internet in a suitcase uses an entirely different communications method--the mesh. In this model, the network is actually all about numerous interlinks between devices, avoiding over-reliance on hubs which can be weak points. Think of it like this--your smartphone has a Wi-Fi link, which can connect to a router, which is hooked to wired broadband Net in its normal usage. But if it's instead connected to a computer, which is also connected to another computer, plus a router, a smartphone, and a feature phone that has a 3G wireless connection, the entire array is spread out over more and different technologies and connection types. Squashing this type of network is much harder. It's a true peer-to-peer solution.

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[rednblacklumberjack]

I'll try to find it, but I recall some suitcase-sized contraption, made of several parallel graphics cards whose GPUs had been repurposed to crack wireless security. This person demonstrated the concept by breaking into wireless networks very rapidly.

[skyhook77sfg]

cool...

where can we get one....

for research purposes of course.

[rednblacklumberjack]

Related, LulzSec's "TitanticTakeoverTuesday"



Today they downed various gaming websites or login servers to game servers. And apparently now the Senate.gov website:



Their target selection seems geared towards a younger audience. Its odd how LulzSec seems to be the missing character in the "cyber-war" theater that's been recently pushed.

[AzariLoveIran]

[rednblacklumberjack]

Is anyone else alarmed at how LulzSec seems to play to the Federal ambitions towards new internet regulations?

[skyhook77sfg]

important observation REDNBLACK....

combine that with


On May 31, The Wall Street Journal disclosed that the Pentagon now asserts "that computer sabotage coming from another country can constitute an act of war, a finding that for the first time opens the door for the U.S. to respond using traditional military force."

(not attack by another country but FROM another country)

hello assange....




combine with a false flag

shake and bake

season to suit


and bye bye

internet as

you've known it.

[AzariLoveIran]