WASHINGTON (PNN) - June 23, 2012 - The Fascist Police States of Amerika government is developing a computer system that would allow it to conduct cyber warfare without the intervention of a human programmer.
Recently, stories have leaked detailing the FPSA government’s creation and implementation of two cyber attacks on the information systems of other nations.
“Flame” was the name of a computer virus reportedly developed and launched by the FPSA in order to glean critical data from computers in several Middle Eastern countries.
The FPSA and Israel launched a joint venture to develop the Flame virus. Once launched into cyber space, the code reportedly collected online intelligence data that was then used to create
a similar bit of malware that would cripple Iran’s nuclear capabilities. The effort was a collaboration of the National Security Agency (NSA), the CIA, and the Israeli military.
One product of that Israeli-American secret enterprise was the Stuxnet virus. Stuxnet was the virus allegedly deployed by the FPSA to decelerate Iran’s progress toward the development of a nuclear weapon.
Soon after the existence of Flame and Stuxnet was uncovered, the ultra-secret Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) was preparing to test unmanned cyber attacks that launch themselves without the need of a human at the controls.
The project is codenamed Plan X, and its goal is to develop systems that could give commanders the ability to carry out speed-of-light attacks and counterattacks using preplanned scenarios that do not involve human operators manually typing in code - a process considered much too slow.
Yes, the need for a human being to launch these cyber attacks is seen by the government as an unnecessary speed bump, much the same way they see the Fourth Amendment’s requirement that a warrant be obtained before anyone is searched or anything is seized as a result of that search.
One former member of the Air Force Judge Advocate General Corps sees the Pentagon’s creation of these weapons as the first step toward the deployment of an autonomous weapon that not only
launches without human direction, but can choose its own targets as well.
It would seem that the more we live by the cyber sword the more likely it becomes that we will eventually die by it - or at least be seriously wounded. There are those working in the shadowy world of Internet security and cyber warfare who recognize the substantial danger posed by these digital weapons to the stability of our own online infrastructure.
Dave Aitel, president of Immunity, Inc., a cyber security company, is a former NSA computer scientist and he believes that Flame and Stuxnet utilized certain “techniques that could have been used against us just as effectively.”
Aitel stated that the order to deploy Flame and Stuxnet was given by illegitimate President Obama himself. “Obama has to say, yes or no,” he said.
There is nothing unconstitutional or immoral about the active protection of Amerikan cyber security from attack. It can be rightly said that such actions represent a 21st-century application of national security that is in complete harmony with the enumerated powers of the federal government as set forth in the Constitution. The problem that arises, however, is when these shields are hammered into swords and used to attack and disable the Internet infrastructure of other nations. That sort of preemptive attack has no constitutional or moral basis.
Besides, what will the FPSA do if a nation decides unilaterally that its own national security is threatened by Amerika’s possession of so many nuclear weapons and decides to dismantle the computer systems that control those missiles? On what moral ground will the FPSA stand in defense of such attacks?
What’s more, just as there is collateral damage in traditional warfare, it seems only logical that there would be some such analogous harm that occurs as the result of cyber attacks.
Is it too incredible to believe that the outlaw FPSA government would secretly launch these viruses on its own citizens? As the size, scope, and resources of the surveillance state continue increasing, it seems possible if not probable that the fascist federal government would be willing to use the technology it is developing to expand the view open to its ever-prying eye; and the most worrisome aspect of all this is that most of the snooping is done without warrants in direct violation of the Fourth Amendment to the Constitution.
The Constitution is repeatedly and routinely ignored by the outlaw federal government in its quest to track, target, and eliminate those it considers enemies of the state or potential threats to our national security.
What will such an outlaw government do with this developing technology?
