[bamahead]

According to the article, the panel was made up of such astute experts on cybersecurity as Joe Lockhart, and Jamie Gorelick...and the only to-do recommendation that came out of this waste of your taxpayer dollars was to federalize the National Guard.

[bamahead]

...the group did agree to advise the president to federalize the National Guard, even if governors objected...

Heard about this on the Kim Komando Show this evening.



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[bamahead]

Ping.

[Eyes Unclouded]

Are you implying that this isn’t what any person elected president in the past (and next) 30 years would do? Disaster, war, bad hair day what have you are all excellent excuses to expand the federal government’s size and power. Looking forward to an actual attack by the Chinese that causes some draconian response which doesn’t actually help things. It is okay though I already take my shoes off before I send email...

[Thunder90]

This tactical scenario does NOT go far enough. I would have included a 9/11 style attack on the Empire State Building and an exploding fuel tanker in the Port of Houston, with a Cat 5 hurricane hitting NOLA again soon after.

Also going on would have been a bioterror attack against Israel and movements by N. Korea (shelling S. Korean positions). Also present are large Iranian backed attacks on US positions in Iraq.

[goodnesswins]

Just finished reading “One Second After” today.....EMF nuke....THIS panel is pissing in the wind....what a joke.

[ErnstStavroBlofeld]

The people that should be blamed for this is the cell phone industry.

[Swiss]

**but the group did agree to advise the president to federalize the National Guard, even if governors objected**

If the phones are dead and power is out good luck mobilizing the National Guard. My unit has a hard enough time getting some people to show up for scheduled drill or contacting them through their phone numbers.

[ntmxx]

If the national security maven and cyber-security expert “Jamie Gorelick” (can you hear the God like echo) is involve, fraud and destruction is planned by the political class to cripple United States social infrastructure.

[Carry_Okie]

When the history of this era is finally Written, if there is not a special place in Hell for the likes of Jamie Gorelick, we will know there is no G-d.

[DB]

I’d just let every country know up front, any cyber attack that causes major economic damage to the US gets disconnected from the Internet if it originated from their country. Any attack that can be traced back to the government of that country that results in major economic damage will be considered an act of war, just as a blockade is. Let’em suck on that.

[familyop]

"...federalize the National Guard...perhaps backed by the U.S. military"

LOL! The Guard is already an integral part of the U.S. military. ...has been for a long time.

"...to guard power lines and prevent unrest."

...sounds exciting...not.

But a "doomsday cyber attack scenario" would probably be a precursor to an EMP burst outside of atmosphere, which would be followed by nuclear weapons exchanges. So it wouldn't be all that lame.

Aaaaaaa! Aaaaaaaaa! Run for your lives! The end is near! Flying saucers! Gastro-intestinal examinations by space aliens! Aaaaa! ;-)

[ShadowAce]

[KosmicKitty]

I’m currently doing my thesis on cyber warfare, cyber retaliation, cyber aggression & cyber deterrence

The idiots on this panel obviously had done no research into these topics prior to the war game.

Wish they had taken the time to get some people who actually had some knowledge of computers, cyber security & cyber law.