Many years ago, I think
it was back in the year 2000 - I had come up with a scheme to bait red hatter
hackers with decoy systems in government, military and corporate facilities.
Making the hackers think they'd gotten into the system, then simply watch where
they go, what they do, and how they do it. No, I'm hardly the first person to
consider this, using decoys in warfare has been talked about since the days of
Sun Tzu. This is just taking a modern day spin on the topic. Trust me when I
tell you this has been done in human wars or thousands of years in various
forms.
Having the operational
intelligence of knowing where a foreign hacking Army is trying to exploit your
IT systems is of extreme value. At the Las Vegas hacker convention in 2013
there was a speech given by a gentleman who reiterated something that a
governor had said at the national Governors' convention, he explained that it
may be impossible to 100% protect all of our IT data and information, but if we
could protect 99% of it we'd be well on our way to eliminate most all of the
hacking exploits.
It would make the cost
of hacking extremely expensive for foreign hacking armies, and they wouldn't be
able to use their "B-game players" meaning they would have to pay to
hire and train the best, and there are a limited number of people with the
intelligence to pull off hacking at that highest level - that to me makes a lot
of sense, but let's talk about this further shall we?
You see, there was an
interesting article in MIT Technology News on August 2, 2013 titled;
"Chinese Hacking Team Caught Taking Over Decoy Water Plant - A hacking
group accused of being operated by the Chinese army now seems to be going after
industrial control systems," by Tom Simonite.
It turns out this
strategy works extremely well, and either China has to come clean, up its game,
or deal with the consequences. Knowing that their hackers might be being
watched will cause them to tread more carefully, thus slowing them down, and it
will also mean that they will not want any of their less than super genius IQ
level hackers involved in the process.
When a foreign Army
starts messing around with our citizens' most valuable resources,
infrastructure, water supplies, energy plants, or anything as serious as that -
that to me is an act of war. I don't think China wants to go there, and yes,
they have been put on notice. Please consider all this and think on it.
Lance Winslow has
launched a new provocative series of eBooks on Future Military Technologies.
Lance Winslow is a retired Founder of a Nationwide Franchise Chain, and now
runs the Online Think Tank; http://www.worldthinktank.net
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