Chertoff Advocates Cyber Cold War

Jack Spine writes "The US and allied countries should formulate a doctrine to apply the principles of nuclear deterrence to cyber attacks and cyber espionage, according to former US Homeland Security secretary Michael Chertoff. No matter that it's very difficult to attribute the source of cyber attacks — just take punitive action against the platform being used to attack, says Chertoff."

Re:Internet don't work like that.

[Xtifr]

Indeed, it's like he's never heard the term Joe Job [wikipedia.org].

So! Skeletor Advocates Drinking of Human Blood?

[Jeremiah Cornelius]

No big surprise.

Chertoff was the head of DHS who hired Stasi officers - like Markus Wolf - to design plans fro a mandatory ID programme, like that used to control freedom of movement in the former East Germany.

"Chertoff is credited with authoring the Patriot Act, the 300-plus page blueprint for the modern National Security State; patterned to great extent on the successes of the KGB in the Soviet system. He's admired among his Bush cadres for making sure that government surveillance operates at maximum efficiency. Under his stewardship at the Dept of Justice, the 4th amendment has withered like summer grass. The long-held belief that citizens, have a right to a "reasonable expectation of privacy" has buckled under the demands of

"Big Brother" and the new "intrusive" security paradigm."

And: "Chertoff's record of failure at Justice is second only to that of Ashcroft. His 4 year tenure hasn't produced even one identifiable success. (Check out his "obstruction of justice" in the John Walker Lindh case on Democracy Now)

Instead, his personal ineptitude and his palpable contempt for the law have only showered more disgrace on the institution of American justice. That probably explains why he's being moved up the bureaucratic dog-pile to the top rung of Homeland Security. In Bush-world "failing upwards" is more commonplace than cowboy boots at a Crawford tent-show."

Falliing Upwards: The Rise of Michael Chertoff [counterpunch.org]

Before this? He was an Assistant Attorney General - who enabled Chiquita to escape prosecution for hiring private, right-wing death squads - to suppress fair-trade practices from emerging in the banana plantations of Colombia.

"Chiquita, [company officials told Chertoff], would have to pull out of the country if it could not continue to pay the violent right-wing group to secure its Colombian banana plantations. Chertoff...affirmed that the payments were illegal but said to wait for more feedback, according to five sources familiar with the meeting...Sources close to Chiquita say that Chertoff never did get back to the company or its lawyers. Neither did Larry D. Thompson, the deputy attorney general, whom Chiquita officials sought out after Chertoff left his job for a federal judgeship in June 2003. And Chiquita kept making payments for nearly another year."

Chertoff, Chiquita and Death Squads [counterpunch.org]

Now, this Mossad-tool wants to escalate the idea - absurd to those with a deep, functional knowledge of IP switched networking - of Cyber Cold War.

This is another part of the steady drumbeat to get a CCOIA type law passed - so the US gets its own "Great Firewall of China".

Chertoff DOES have a real enemy that he wants to damage in his cyberwar: the enemy is YOU.