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MonsterMind – Snowden reveals the US proactive defense system

  • 15 August 2014
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Jasper_The_Rasper
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There are some interesting points brought up here. Unless there is a way to detect a spoofed IP addy and discover the original IP addy any country can get the target to launch a similar attck on a country of their choice. Such as Russia launches a DOS attack on the USA via a spoofed IP from China resulting in China being attacked despite being innocent.
 
by Pierluigi Paganini on August 15th, 2014
 
"“The NSA whistleblower says the agency is developing a cyber defense system that would instantly and autonomously neutralize foreign cyberattacks against the US, and could be used to launch retaliatory strikes as well. The program, called MonsterMind, raises fresh concerns about privacy and the government’s policies around offensive digital attacks.” states Wired Magazine.
Imagine that Russia decides to run a DDoS attack against US systems, but that the attacker is able to spoof the origin IP address of a different country or to route through its infrastructure the malicious traffic, then a retaliatory automated attack could hit the wrong country rather than Russia networks."
 
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Good article what is scary is who is doing what and where?? Monster-mind poses the question of privacy for sure and than there is no guarantee their getting the right attacker!!!

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