What cracks me up about the media bugle blowing over the new flavor of the moment is “Cyber Attacks”. Everywhere you look, “China/Russian”(u pick one) hackers steal millions of (add noun here)__________. Millions of Credit Card Numbers from Home Depot, Target, TJX.” “Hackers broke into White House, DOD, DHS, CIA,FAA, US Chamber of Commerce, The Boy Scouts of America and Starbucks websites and caused .5% denial of service lag time.
I don’t live under a rick, I was in the Navy for a long time when they were testing HAARP. This is not a conspiracy theory. One of its original intended uses was to communicate with deeply submerged submarines using ULF (ultra Low Frequencies) in a bid to constantly be in communication with these strategic assets in the event the president ordered a retaliatory nuclear strike. The reasoning to attain the ability to communicate with deeply submerged subs was to keep them from coming close to the surface to either deploy a rather long and mostly unreliable “floating antennae”, or come to periscope depth to raise her periscope and radio masts where the advantages of submarines become moot; Radio Masts and Periscopes leave wakes and reflect radar, quick burst radio traffic can be detected and tracked, and even though the sub is still under water, a Trident Submarine with a length over 500 feet and width over 30 feet can be seen from the air depending on water clarity down to 300-500 feet. HAARP would have eliminated all that. IT didn’t work. But what it did do, it had the ability to fry any electrical circuit it was focused at, either by bouncing it off the ionosphere just like any radio station transmission or an orbiting satellite. We have been doing the same thing to these cyber enemy nations for years. Remember the Logic Bomb that was planted into the Iranian Centrifuges? The Iranian techs worked for weeks ripping the controlling software apart to ensure their Ayatollahs that the software was safe to use. They plugged them in, turned them on…Then they ran for 1 week, 2 weeks, three weks. In the meantime they brought online more centrifuges and then KA_BLOOIE”!!!!! Logic Bomb! The Ultimate IED.
So don’t think our NSA, NRO, CIA, DAARPA and our other intel agencies are sitting on thier asses. Our cyber adversaries have the ability to blackout and censor any new detrimental to that current regimes policies. A Successful USA or Western Nation cyber attack would definatly fall into the “We don’t want our public knowing the USA is having great success in not only hacking into thier systems, but shutting them down. Because I feel if hackers were able to disrupt The Americsn Economy by shutting down portions of our power grids, damageing our transpertation ATC Radar and Railroad track signals, reprogramming GPS location signals and wrecking the banking industry by rerouting deposits; IT WOULD HAVE HAPPENED ALREADY! But that would be an act of war, and this government is very good and accurate in finding out where these attacks originate from and 99.9% of the time it is not a high school kid in his parents’ basement. These are professional programmers working for a foreign state sponsor. Systems like HAARP were just a prototype. There are smaller and more transportable devices that can focus an EMP type disruption at say a bank while leaving the police department’s computers unaffected next store. The R&D for these types of weapons have been in development, testing and Deployed since Regan Announced SDI in 1983 (or was it 84, I forget)
So calm down America. If sections of our grid get EM’d it will suck, it will be inconvenient, but it won’t take years to get back up and running. Many systems already have been hardened, banks back up their systems all over the world, mainly near those countries that would cause us harm.
In closing, if the unlikely did happen, it would unite this country in a away never seen before. I see move toward a more Nationalistic America with full support of the population with the main reasoning behind it would be the reason, “Why do we continue to be nice, placate and in a lot of cases financially support countries that clearly at the most, want to do us harm. Even more countries, at the very least, with reliable foreknowledge of a full blown cyber attack, would happily sit back and allow it to happen. Unfortunately I am taking about most of our NATO allies who have seen their own countries destroyed by the biggest loss of human life after two World Wars in the last century followed by 45 years of a very disruptive yet needed Cold war that required them to be Junior Partners and watch their own countries opinions become ever increasingly irreverent while the US Military did all the heavy lifting while they focused on Social Welfare programs while basking in the security that Uncle Sam Provided them. Now that the Cold War is over and the continent has its Dentures and Eyeglasses; they bad mouth and insult the USA for being imperialistic for 45 years in Europe as if they could have kept the USSR at bay without us. They proudly look at the European Union that has been created. Unfortunately history has a strange way of repeating itself. Europe has not solved the problems or found answers to the issues that caused the two world wars costing the lives of 100 million people. And it seems those issues are becoming louder and more relevant with every passing day. I hope my government keeps out of it this time, unlike Clinton who needed to divert the attention of cheating on his wife and the American people while taking a steamer from a young intern in the Oval Office. He changed the subject by attacking our friends in Bosnia.. That would be a very bad day for the world if the United States went that way. Very bad indeed!