http://www.metafilter.com/tags/deterrence Posts tagged with 'deterrence' at MetaFilter. Mon, 14 Sep 2009 11:00:16 -0800 Mon, 14 Sep 2009 11:00:16 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://www.metafilter.com/85026/Gentlemen%2Dyou%2Dcant%2Dfight%2Dhere%2DThis%2Dis%2Dthe%2DWar%2DRoom <a href="http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/nukevault/ebb285/index.htm">1995 Contractor Study Finds that U.S. Analysts Exaggerated Soviet Aggressiveness and Understated Moscow's Fears of a U.S. First Strike.</a> During a 1972 command post exercise, leaders of the Kremlin listened to a briefing on the results of a hypothetical war with the United States. A U.S. attack would kill 80 million Soviet citizens and destroy 85 percent of the country's industrial capacity. According to the recollections of a Soviet general who was present, General Secretary Leonid Brezhnev "trembled" when he was asked to push a button, asking Soviet defense minister Grechko "this is definitely an exercise?" This story appears in a recently released two-volume study on Soviet Intentions, 1965-1985, prepared in 1995 by the Pentagon contractor BDM Corporation, and published today for the first time by the National Security Archive. Based on an extraordinarily revealing series of interviews with former senior Soviet defense officials--"unhappy Cold Warriors"--during the final days of the Soviet Union, the BDM study puts Soviet nuclear policy in a fresh light by highlighting Soviet leaders' recognition of the catastrophe of nuclear conflict, even while they supported preparations for fighting an unsurvivable war. tag:metafilter.com,2009:site.85026 Mon, 14 Sep 2009 11:00:16 -0800 deterrence failure intelligence nuclear sovjet DreamerFi http://www.metafilter.com/70295/Supertargeted%2Dspear%2Dphishing%2Dattacks The recent cyber attacks on <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/21/AR2008032102605.html">pro-Tibet groups</a> in the U.S. (<a href="http://www.f-secure.com/weblog/archives/00001406.html">attack details</a>, <a href="http://isc.sans.org/diary.html?storyid=4177">technical data</a>) and on the <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/20/AR2008032003193.html">Save Darfur</a> Coalition, among <a href="http://www.scmagazineus.com/Olympic-spam-carries-malicious-code-MessageLabs/article/107232/">others</a>, have managed to catch the attention of some in the mainstream media. Such super-targeted <a href="http://searchsecurity.techtarget.com/sDefinition/0,,sid14_gci1134829,00.html">spear phishing</a> attacks have been on the <a href="http://64.233.169.104/search?q=cache:xywpL9uO1CsJ:www.ci.hillsboro.or.us/Police/documents/Argus/SpearPhishing-11-03-05.pdf">rise</a> for several years, and have become an important <a href="http://resources.zdnet.co.uk/articles/features/0,1000002000,39365959,00.htm">tool</a> for corporate <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9045564">espionage</a> and military <a href="http://www.fcw.com/online/news/97186-1.html">infiltration</a> attempts. <a href="http://govexec.com/dailyfed/0807/082207mm.htm">Teaching users</a> to recognize such attack emails is probably the most effective deterrence, as <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/07/11/09/Zero-day-specialists-hooked-on-spear-phishing_1.html">technology</a> solutions have shown to not be particularly effective. Some companies and government agencies even conduct <a href="http://online.wsj.com/public/article/SB112424042313615131-z_8jLB2WkfcVtgdAWf6LRh733sg_20060817.html">sting operations</a> to ferret out which internal users fail the test, targeting them for additional training. Thanks to <a href="http://www.metafilter.com/user/12845">homunculus</a> for <a href="http://www.metafilter.com/70026/Trouble-on-the-Roof-of-the-World#2056111">encouraging</a> me to post on this. tag:metafilter.com,2008:site.70295 Thu, 27 Mar 2008 20:34:53 -0800 attack cyber deterrence espionage malware phishing spearphishing Tibet trojan gemmy