And the Cyber Cold War rages on….

President Obama has done nothing to straighten up military forces especially Air Force Space Command (aka has USAF Cyber command) on the grim situtation that China and Russia now know our entire power grid infrastructure and may use blackouts as social engineering for their defense. So far the trojans/logic bombs haven’t done any collateral damage as it has a remote control fuse it seems. The President has been overly cowardly to not bring up this concern as he is too busy trying to make friends with the Europeans. China and Russia have this Asian pact where they give us Intellegence on terrorism, but they make up their loss of sheer political power in the cyber cold war it seems. It could be a social enginnering game of cat and mouse with blackouts as severe as the Northeast Blackout of 2003 (caused by UNIX glitch which put the plant into safe mode).

The recent news about GhostNet, the suspected cyber espionage activity of the Chinese government uncovered by The Information Warfare Monitor is alarming news, to say the least. More than a thousand computers have been compromised with apparent ease, many in high-value secure government offices. Researchers revealed that the compromises were so sophisticated, that confidential documents were removed, video cameras and microphones turned on to observe events, and sophisticated key-loggers tracked everything that was typed. According to two of my sources well-placed in government and computer security, this is just the frightening tip of an enormous iceberg.
Many will recall my report on the FBI’s concern about counterfeit network router hardware being installed in businesses and government agencies all across the nation. Many were concerned that the counterfeit routers contained code that allowed for a broad range of back-doors into secure computer systems, as well as covert kill-switches that would shut-down after receiving a remote signal. Indeed, several analysts found thousands of additional lines of machine code as compared to a non-counterfeit. Since the counterfeit hardware originated in China, the FBI was very concerned, so much so that they responded to my report.
Our work here, together on abovetopsecret, broke that important story to the world.
I’ve recently spoken to two well-placed computer security experts who firmly believe there is a frightening connection between GhostNet and the counterfeit routers. Their fear is that we are mere months away from a series of significant cyber attacks on key private sector businesses and portions of our infrastructure.
My first contact is a highly experienced computer security expert who often works directly with law enforcement and intelligence agencies. Asking for my assurances of complete confidence in his anonymity, he revealed that there is a great deal of concern, both among his IT counterparts and security experts within law enforcement, that GhostNet is a sophisticate reconnaissance system designed to locate the counterfeit routers. Many are speculating that the gHost RAT trojan (delivered via email and has been in broad use for months) may be triggered by recognizing key attributes of the counterfeit routers, and reports back the details of the exploitable network.
Experts are concerned that the number of infected systems discovered by The Information Warfare Monitor may very well be a tiny percentage of networks that are known to be exploitable, but not yet infected. GhostNet is cataloging potential networks and refining the cyber weapons for the next round of attacks. The activity seen thus far has been proof-of-concept tests of computer take-over software in preparation for larger-scale attacks — a weapons test if you will.
My second contact is an IT manager at a large financial products company who tracked down and replaced a number of counterfeit routers in their network. As their internal security team examined all systems connected to the removed routers, he was alarmed at their findings. Nearly all of the Windows-based computer systems connected to the routers contained some form of malware. In comparison to other Windows computers on their network, only 10-20% on average had any type of malware. He cautioned that all of the systems on the counterfeit routers were new systems in public-facing installations (branch offices), and a higher-than normal infection rate was expected. However, the 100% infection-rate was unusual.
Both of these computer security professionals are increasingly concerned about the convergence of these two items that appear to point back to either the Chinese government, or Chinese state-sponosored cyber criminals. The report from Information Warfare Monitor stops short of specifically naming the Chinese government, or intelligence agencies within the government, as the culprit of these attacks. However, we do know that their intelligence agencies and law enforcement units have acted upon information obtained through GhostNet.
My contacts feel we (western nations) are mere months away from the second, more serious wave, of attacks designed to harm key corporations and interrupt vital infrastructure. The hope is that GhostNet is a tool of cyber criminals — after all, if that is the case, we’re safe, no criminal would cripple the networks that provide their bounty. What worries them most, however, is the combination of our complete lack of preparation (the U.S. DHS cyber security division is a joke), the stunning sophistication and multi-tiered nature of these attacks, and the disturbing potential connection to the Chinese government. To be clear, they feel a second wave of attacks are not likely to be a national disaster that cripples the nation, that may be reserved for the third wave.
The conspiracy theorist in me observes a number of causes for concern.
(1) – The mainstream press appears to be working hard to spike or avoid any connection of GhostNet back to the counterfeit router issue.
(2) – The media, especially US-based media, is typically over-playing the “hacker criminal” aspect of this story so as to avoid concern over state-sponsored cyber warfare — they know we (western nations) are at a disadvantage.
(3) – The Chinese government has recently made a great deal of noise voicing concern over the US dollar and the need for a global currency. Causing harm to the US infrastructure through a well-placed cyber attack may significantly weaken the dollar and hasten their financial agenda.
(4) – After all that has happened after September, 2001, especially the increase in sophisticated Internet attacks as well as known state-sponsored cyber terrorism, why has the government let us down?
These developments indicate the Internet equivalent of the 9/11 attacks may very well be on the horizon. And again, we are not only not ready, we’re completely clueless

Exterrestrial Artifacts on the Moon

I don’t think we’ve been on the Moon for that long to add junk. Hmmm.

Aliens in Human shells

Why do UFO proponents, “contactees,” “abductees” and other supporters always seem to depict their aliens as humanoid? Why are they insistent that these alleged life-forms follow the human body-plan?

This goes against our understanding of science and all current biological models of how life evolved on earth, let alone other worlds. Even if the entire process of evolution on earth were re-simulated with all of the original parameters of biological genesis in place, we still wouldn’t come out looking the same. So why would a visitor from an alien world look like us?

It’s a near guarantee that they wouldn’t.

Let me give you one example ( out of possible billions: )

Let’s start with a world that could serve as a location for our hypothetical biosphere. It’s a low-gravity, Titan-like moon with an upper atmosphere saturated in energy rich polymers powered by the radiation and magnetic fields of the central planet. These gradually filter down various strata where assorted types of hunter-gather clades develop alongside other more stationary biota. The entire pace of life is incredibly slow and almost frozen in comparison to our earth-like perception of time. Things live for extraordinarily long periods, and evolution itself takes a virtual eternity to run its course.

Eventually, a sentient race emerges. Their biochemistry is based on liquid hydrocarbons, fullerenes, ammonia and nitrogen causing them to appear as a very large and bizarre crab-like or spider-like configuration that only vaguely resembles anything that we could recognize. They move and function so slowly that they can barely be perceived to be living things at all. Their senses are not visual or aural – instead, relying predominantly on sonar-like transmission and detection. (This means no written language or art, but instead similar concepts being employed with geometric configurations and textures conveying the equivalent.)

These beings become the dominant species of the planet and go on to discover space exploration after millions and millions of years of slow advancement.

Incidentally, long distance or sub-relativistic journeys would not be a problem for this species as the passage of time is not really an issue considering their pace of life and perception. Traveling to a distant star system would be no more strenuous to them than sending someone to the moon is for us. Their technology would be based on cryobiology, developed from low-temperature life feeding on Titan-like or Kuiper-belt environments and growing the necessary structures out of polymers, ice and frozen gas. So, basically some VERY exotic stuff. They prefer to compile constructs in orbit or on dead, moon-like worlds without atmospheres.

Their technology, aesthetics, psychology and even architecture would be absolutely mind-bending to behold. If their machinery were put before a population of human beings for examination, almost nothing useful could be extracted from them aside from the fact that they would be quite obviously “alien.” Their ‘ships’ and other components melt, explode or “die” when exposed to earth temperatures and pressures and any ‘probes’ sent to earth would have to be “custom-made” to adhere to our planets physical constraints. Their behaviors and methods of construction would be a profoundly disturbing sight to anyone first attempting to make sense out of them, and communication or any relative attempts at contact would be extremely difficult requiring a number of years of careful study.

And that is just ONE example of ONE type of world that life could develop on.

This does not take into account how gaseous, Jovian life would develop if it became sentient. (But it’s probably safe to say that they’d probably make the guys I just described look pretty normal in comparison.)

My point is this: Considering the possibilities of life in the universe, how intelligent life developed on earth, and how the mechanism of evolution itself works – the idea of humanoid aliens is absurd.

I can understand what you mean by not look like us, but what im trying to point out here is that the mentality is also key to the way that lifefom will look in some respects..

If we take basic logic here and say ok we have 2 planets bother are identical! and we let them fester… the same things that happen on one would not infact happen on the other at the same time “number of factors” wind rain geolgy ect”..

Infact you could have 2 planets with the excat same thing and one may never have life on it and the other one will.. why is this? because in order for life to happen it must be planned..!!

Now if we scale this up to our universe.. the amount of earthlike planets are good alot infact, will like take hold on one of them “well we know that for sure because we are here” would life on that planet evolve humans from the very first spark “well we know for sure it can because we are here” now if we take into account what the earth is made from ect we can say that any earth like planet would hold a good change of making the same stuff on it.. Tho we dont know the chances of it actualy making humans becuase of metor impacts ect… but the “basic” blocks are there that give the “chance for it” to happen just like it did on earth and with that world called infinity you can bet ur bottom doller its happend alot!!!

Now would aliens Look like us from a planet that is not the same “lets say jupiter” well no way would it look close, infact nothing on the planet would come close to any alien that resided on jupiter.. would it have intelegence? well if life is there then the possiblity of it getting or making intelegence is 1 because we have life “prerequsist ofc”…

So with that i can firmly say yes other aliens do stand a very good chance of looking like the way we do.. and some will not “they are the ones who may not visit” infact i find it hard to imagen why they would bother…

now another thing also is Bactira, there is a good possiblity of GIANT bactira aswell that live in the skys of planets.. just like the pretty worms we see floating about in ours, i dont think like is limited to only planets i can imagen life living in space aswell…

dont ask my what the hell it would look like lol but the place in witch we live is VERY odd indeed, we should know this because we are here!! that is odd on its own dont you think.

maybe the aliens are humanoid because that’s the most common genetic blueprint for sentient beings. we cannot say for sure because we clearly do not know, so assuming its not is just ignorant (or disinfo).

humanoids have five appendages that extrude from our core; head, two arms, two legs. we have five fingers, and five toes on each hand/foot. makes sense to me. why would a sentient being have three legs and one arm? because that’s illogical. i also don’t don’t know for sure, and neither do you.

so im going to go ahead and believe the eye witnesses over your opinion, which is just an opinion with no evidence to back your claims.