03.11.13
The purpose of shoeshine
From the wire, news that two of the biggest arms manufacturers in then world, Lockheed and Raytheon, are in the running to furnish a private army of cybersoldiers to the government.
Lockheed Martin and Raytheon are vying with telecommunications companies to defend banks and power grids from computer attacks, in a program that gives them access to classified U.S. government data on cyber threats.
President Barack Obama’s Feb. 12 cybersecurity executive order authorized the Department of Homeland Security to let new companies get the government intelligence. Obama and U.S. officials have said sharing classified threat data with companies is essential to help prevent cyber-attacks that could cause deaths or economic disruption …
Under the program, the companies are provided — free of charge — computer threat “signatures,??? such as timestamps and coding used in attacks, which have been obtained by the National Security Agency and other agencies. The companies can use this intelligence to strengthen cybersecurity services they sell to businesses that maintain critical infrastructure.
“The demand is there. I think the priority is there, and the threat is serious,??? Steve Hawkins, vice president of information and security solutions for Raytheon, said in an interview.
Cybersecurity Market
Defense contractors like Raytheon view cybersecurity as a growing business as Pentagon spending stalls or declines on more traditional military programs …
To defend against economic disruption. Savor that one.
A slice from the news feed on “lay offs” and “sequester.”
The President can’t even get the minimum wage raised but there are always initiatives to give more to arms manufacturers, or all of our cyberdefenders, to stop alleged economic disruption.
It’s clear evidence, stuff only stupid people can ignore, that the US has a government and corporate national security complex that forces people into moral crisis.
It’s simple. If you work for this while the rest of the country continues to be hung out to dry, you’re part of the machinery of theft, not the opposite. Got it?
Yes, great idea of benefit to everyday Americans. Give information from the NSA, bought by taxpayers, to arms manufacturers who will sell it for profit to customers. It’s called corporate capture and it’s everywhere in the 2013 US, the model perfected when the government gave free money to too big to fail banks who then turned it around to lend to others at much higher rates of interest.
Well done, parasites! It’s good to be evil!
Believe me, a daily dose of contempt for cybersecurity shoeshiners is not nearly enough.