Phase III – Stealth Is.

The U.S. is joining the U.N. in a “cyber arms control collaboration.”

The US, UK, China and Russia are among 15 nations that have agreed to work together to reduce the threat of cyber attacks.

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The group has recommended the UN creates norms of accepted behaviour in cyberspace. It should also exchange information on national legislation and cybersecurity strategies, and strengthen the capacity of less-developed countries to protect their computer systems.

In the past, US efforts to work with other countries in cyberspace have centred on combatting crimes online, but did not deal with issues such as state involvement in or responsibility for cyber intrusions into critical computer systems.

So they pitch “Perfect Citizen” – forcing security measures on private companies.

Which stems from The Cyberwar Hype – pushed by some of the same defense contractors who’ve brought you the endless (and costly) war or terror.

No internet kill switch yet, but there were already provision in old congressional bills for turning off communications.

Does the transition to IP V. 6 have anything to do with this? It seems more addresses which do not favor NAT re-assignments would make it easier to track individuals to me. How Do DHCP leases and proxies get handled with regards to this new version of TCP/IP?

Also of note, U.S. Authorities Shut Down WordPress Host With 73,000 Blogs

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The federal government is launching an expansive program dubbed “Perfect Citizen” to detect cyber assaults on private companies and government agencies running such critical infrastructure as the electricity grid and nuclear-power plants, according to people familiar with the program.

The surveillance by the National Security Agency, the government’s chief eavesdropping agency, would rely on a set of sensors deployed in computer networks for critical infrastructure that would be triggered by unusual activity suggesting an impending cyber attack, though it wouldn’t persistently monitor the whole system, these people said.

Defense contractor Raytheon Corp. recently won a classified contract for the initial phase of the surveillance effort valued at up to $100 million, said a person familiar with the project.

An NSA spokeswoman said the agency had no information to provide on the program. A Raytheon spokesman declined to comment.

Some industry and government officials familiar with the program see Perfect Citizen as an intrusion by the NSA into domestic affairs, while others say it is an important program to combat an emerging security threat that only the NSA is equipped to provide.

“The overall purpose of the [program] is our Government…feel[s] that they need to insure the Public Sector is doing all they can to secure Infrastructure critical to our National Security,” said one internal Raytheon email, the text of which was seen by The Wall Street Journal. “Perfect Citizen is Big Brother.”

A U.S. military official called the program long overdue and said any intrusion into privacy is no greater than what the public already endures from traffic cameras….

U.S. intelligence officials have grown increasingly alarmed about what they believe to be Chinese and Russian surveillance of computer systems that control the electric grid and other U.S. infrastructure. Officials are unable to describe the full scope of the problem, however, because they have had limited ability to pull together all the private data.

Perfect Citizen will look at large, typically older computer control systems that were often designed without Internet connectivity or security in mind. Many of those systems—which run everything from subway systems to air-traffic control networks—have since been linked to the Internet, making them more efficient but also exposing them to cyber attack.

See also: “The cyberwar & lies” for information about why this hype is being pushed and why big budget defense contract devils like Raytheon are benefiting from it.

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