mike wightman
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I watched this latest offering from Arvin Ash and couldn't help wondering what a TL15/16 version of stuxnet could do to the computer architecture used all across the Imperium.
There's a movie on NF (the name eludes me) about a WWII operation, involving Ian Fleming no less, about placing a dead allied pilot? Courier? Something like that, with fake D-Day plans for the German to find. Fascinating story.
If you want to watch the "NOT Netflix" documentary ...There's a movie on NF (the name eludes me) about a WWII operation, involving Ian Fleming no less, about placing a dead allied pilot? Courier? Something like that, with fake D-Day plans for the German to find. Fascinating story.
And for additional additional accuracy the homeless guy was dressed up a Royal Marine officer, not an RAF officer.It was a dead homeless man that was dressed up as a dead RAF officer (presumably from a plane crash at sea) and floated off the coast of Spain with an attache case cuffed to his wirst with fake documents relating to the upcoming Allied invasion at Calais where Gen. Patton across the Channel in SE England had his massed armored division of fake rubber tanks and war materiel which German planes had spotted by aerial reconnaissance. It was one of the things that contributed to delaying Hitler in responding to D-Day, mistaking the Normandy invasion as a feint.
Actually, the action was carried out in the Mediterranean to get the Germans to think that the Allies were going to invade Sardinia or possibly Greece, instead of Sicily. The Germans took the bait hook, line, sinker, and the fishing boat. The German Navy War Diaries of the time frame make for interesting reading. They were completely fooled. The book is the Man Who Never Was.It was a dead homeless man that was dressed up as a dead RAF officer (presumably from a plane crash at sea) and floated off the coast of Spain with an attache case cuffed to his wirst with fake documents relating to the upcoming Allied invasion at Calais where Gen. Patton across the Channel in SE England had his massed armored division of fake rubber tanks and war materiel which German planes had spotted by aerial reconnaissance. It was one of the things that contributed to delaying Hitler in responding to D-Day, mistaking the Normandy invasion as a feint.
Yes, he washed up on the Spanish shore? The info went to Berlin via Germany's Embassy in SpainActually, the action was carried out in the Mediterranean to get the Germans to think that the Allies were going to invade Sardinia or possibly Greece, instead of Sicily. The Germans took the bait hook, line, sinker, and the fishing boat. The German Navy War Diaries of the time frame make for interesting reading. They were completely fooled. The book is the Man Who Never Was.
Yes, he washed up on the Spanish shore? The info went to Berlin via Germany's Embassy in Spain
And for additional additional accuracy the homeless guy was dressed up a Royal Marine officer, not an RAF officer.
It was the invasion of Sicily that was disguised, not the invasion of France.
Actually, the action was carried out in the Mediterranean to get the Germans to think that the Allies were going to invade Sardinia or possibly Greece, instead of Sicily. The Germans took the bait hook, line, sinker, and the fishing boat. The German Navy War Diaries of the time frame make for interesting reading. They were completely fooled. The book is the Man Who Never Was.
So explain today's cyberwarfare?Apples and Road Apples. Stuxnet was cool though. But, there are almost no real computer viruses anymore. The skill to write them is rare in the computer programming field now. I started in the AV field in the 90's. Guys in the 29A group were good (29A being a hex value, 666 being the decimal value). Their mag was followed by the AV company AV coders. A wild quarter of a century run in that field.
Let's ... just for laughs ... say that skill is a 1 in a million gift. Then among the 1 billion Chinese, there are only 1000 "29A group" candidates. So let us further postulate that only 1 in 100 of those with the gift, actually develop it to fruition; then there are only 10 Chinese "29A group" coders active. With a planetary population of 7.7 billion, that equates to a mere 77 active members of the "29A group" given the very conservative values assumed "just for fun".The skill to write them is rare in the computer programming field now.
But hardly ANY of those "candidates" will even go into the field and of those a smaller % will have any interest and of those even less will have the ethical proclivity. So, the numbers you present are not at all accurate.Let's ... just for laughs ... say that skill is a 1 in a million gift. Then among the 1 billion Chinese, there are only 1000 "29A group" candidates.
Not relevant. Cyberwarfare doesn't rely on viruses. It relies of other types of malware and computer attacks. Most of the successful attacks (~80%) rely on exploitable memory errors in code. Hence the push from the White House on down for memory safe coding languages to be used. I consulted a company last year helping launch their product that is used to recompile source code to make it memory safe when running. Without needing to find the memory flaws in the source code.So explain today's cyberwarfare?
Respectfully, I posit a mere 1 per 100 million population. That would equate to only 3 or 4 POSSIBLE in the US based on our population. Less than that by a factor of ten makes the existence of such a group impossible at the population of the Earth. The fact that they DID EXIST means the numbers cannot be THAT far off.So, the numbers you present are not at all accurate.