June 2012

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Creating disasters

As we winterpatriot readers know, the creation of disasters is nothing new. But the methods are ever-evolving. Along those lines, here are a couple stories that caught my attention this week.

DUTCH RESEARCHER CREATES A SUPER-DEADLY INFLUENZA VIRUS WITH THE POTENTIAL TO KILL HALF OF EARTH'S POPULATION
first in the news in Nov 2011 (did we already hit this one here?)

Richard H. Ebright, a chemistry professor and bioweapons expert at Rutgers University who has long opposed such research said, “This research should not have been done.”
He warned that germs that could be used as bioweapons had already been unintentionally released hundreds of times from labs in the United States and predicted that the same thing would happen with the new virus.
He said. “It will inevitably escape, and within a decade.”

http://tommytoy.typepad.com/tommy-toy-pbt-consultin/2012/01/dutch-resear...

Texas college hacks drone in front of DHS
“Spoofing a GPS receiver on a UAV is just another way of hijacking a plane,” Humphreys tells Fox. The real danger here, however, is that the government is currently considering plans that will allow local law enforcement agencies and other organizations from coast-to-coast to control drones of their own in America’s airspace.
“In five or ten years you have 30,000 drones in the airspace,” he tells Fox News. “Each one of these could be a potential missile used against us.”

http://rt.com/usa/news/texas-1000-us-government-906/

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Setting the world a Flame

Researchers Connect Flame to US-Israel Stuxnet Attack
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/06/flame-tied-to-stuxnet/

Obama Ordered Stuxnet to Continue After Bug Caused It to Spread Wildly
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/06/obama-ordered-stuxnet-continued...

The ongoing cyberattack authorized by Obama coincided with the Administration and members of Congress chastising China for its supposed roles in cyber-intrusions into government contractors, human rights groups and Western corporations. The Times piece notes that Obama was aware and concerned that the government’s forays into cyberattacks would give justification to Iran, China and other entities conducting similar attacks against the United States.

Do you think?