Frustrations of our Cyber warriors.
Frustrations of our Cyber warriors.
Company C, cyber war efforts.
By Gerald, Internet Anthropologist Think Tank
09.01.09
There have been numerous articles about cyber war
in the Press recently.
These are just the head lines for the Overt Cyber War.
The covert war is secret. And dominated by NSA.
The civilian corps face different problems and frustrations.
( Avg. age of our cyber troops is 40 yrs old. )
I'm speaking as commander of our Cyber Battalion.
And some of the frustrations for the cyber theater are the same
as the physical theater.
Hurry up and wait.
Mushroom paradigm, keep them in the dark and covered
for Opsec reasons.
Our civilian troops are dedicated, hard workers, and give
generously of their time and skills.
Cyber Warfare covers a huge theater and many arenas,
Recon, surveillance, moles, spies, traps, copying web sites,
research, paradigm Intel, many kinds of operations, psyops,
Info War, Tracking and tracing bad guys, deploying Bot Surveillance
Units, and some times just digging, digging and more digging.
Capabilities encompass many scenarios.
To target a network of PC someone might use Cyber sniper squads.
With the capability to kill but also maybe only disable a PC for
a short time. The snipers objective is to remove targets
form Internet Connection for specific time frames, maybe just 5 min.
maybe to kill the PC take it out for days, or permanently..
Al Qaeda and Tailban Internet com is very difficult to trace and track.
For their own productions they use a media center connected via
cable or satellite.
They use Internet cafes for correspondence.
Most use Pakistan's information infrastructure as their own. On the
Western side, near Herat, they use Iran.
Alternatively they hack satellites.
Software allows them to locate a Satellite, then intercept inbound and
outbound transmissions. It's possible to ride packets on outbound.
And make their own version of these to hit internet cafes:
The effort to circumvent them is ongoing and successful.
We have a heavy Cyber Weapons squad, OSINT Teams,
moles/spies, Cyber pirates, Recon teams, Internal affairs,
Cyber Security teams, Classified Companies, G2 division,
a cyber war college, watch officer, admin section etc.
Most cyber battles have been anonymous. covert and
cloaked and only in self defense.
We have run security for some very impressive organizations.
And exposed many Moles and operations.
The war includes research, recon, OSINT , signit, paradigm Intel,
BSU's, surveillance, moles, etc.
Their is a great effort expended to gain the info needed and
to turn data into Intel. And can be frustrating.
Setting a trap, involves waiting, watching some
times for days or months even.
Testing suspects, recruiting, turning others, all
that takes time and dedication.
And have contacts at FBI, CIA, NSA, DHS, Pentagon, Police
Agencys world wide, Dept of State and host of other alphabet groups which
we report relevant Intel to.
We surveiled and copied around 750 terrorist web sites,
during one operation. And the operation objectives changed mid-operation, resulting
in the cancellation of the operation which was almost finished.
Shortly later over 1,000 terrorist web sites were taken down, resulting
in the loss of over 10,000,000 terrorist web pages.
The troops went at it at Flank speed some almost around the clock.
Many troops made many sacrifices to work so hard for so long.
And Bang its canceled. We had no way to for see this development
and it hurt morale. But couldn't be avoided.
Another operation was to alert Americas to the fatal risks
associated with visits to Mexico.
In the middle of the operation the State Department issued
a travel warning alerting the public to the risk.
Which met our objective.
And this operation was canceled.
The men and women work very hard but sometimes
the work cn be disppointing.
G2 officers are always in short supply.
And good ones are burned up and out from
the demand and emergencies.
About half their work product ever sees the
light of day..
Moles are under considerable pressure also.
The stress is tremendous, and some burn out
from fear and taking big risks.
At some point they will run into a group they
fear. And just blink out..But there are others to
step in and take their place.
Vetting is hard and the mole school is difficult.
We had a massive operation for the US troopers
who's fingers were cut off, we just couldn't get enough
traction fast enough before they were killed.
We were running at flank speed, massive amount
of our civilian troop hours were consumed.
And upon the death of those brave American
troops the operation was also killed.
We have recon operations going on 24/7
And if we get a hot hit, we pull in troopers
as needed, that means the troopers have to
give some of their personal time to work on the
operation.
And its frustrating to spend 10 hrs on an op
just to discover its a dead end.
But the Troops perceiver and struggle on..
And as a trooper you never see the big picture
until its posted and you may not even recognize
your part in the operation.
And some ops are secret and never get posted
just reported to the Feds.
Some times its like building the Great wall of China
and you made 3 of the bricks, and you may never
know where they were used.
For me the IMPORTANT part is keeping quiet.
Some GREAT stories, operations,
Fantastic Paradigm Intel, but can't
post any of it for Opsec reasons,
protecting sources, methods and
Intel, which is reported to the Feds.
Some of our work will remain secret
forever. And its very hard ( to PUSH THE BUTTON )
and permently erase
( To DOD 5220.22-M STANDARDS )
those files. No one will ever know.
And I salute all our civilian cyber troops
for all their hard work and efforts in this
war on terrorism.
The Glory is attributed to our
hard working cyber troops
and those I've burned out.
They have made all of this possible
and the effort couldn't be a success
without them, every one of them.
I am privileged to command them
and be a conduit for their Intel
efforts. I'm working for some
of the Best Cyber troops in the
world, whom will remain nameless
forever but their efforts have made
a difference in the GWOT.
And I am proud of every one of them.
god bless them all.
Salute.
Gerald
Internet Anthropologist
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