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jueves, 20 de febrero de 2014

La "hipocresía informativa" de Occidente promociona un golpe de Estado

La "hipocresía informativa" de Occidente promociona un golpe de Estado en Ucrania

Publicado: 21 feb 2014 | 3:25 GMT Última actualización: 21 feb 2014 | 3:25 GMT

En lo referente a la reacción de Occidente hacia los acontecimientos en Ucrania, algunos analistas creen que EE.UU. y la UE adolecen de una gran "hipocresía informativa para preparar un golpe de Estado" en ese país.

"La idea [de Occidente] es dejar en claro que los únicos terroristas son el Gobierno", afirma el analista político Carlos Santa María y añade que "lo que existe es un intento del golpe de Estado y no es tanta la violencia como ellos dicen".

"Como no hay libertad de prensa, el mismo mensaje llega a Japón, a Polonia, a EE.UU. y a toda América Latina", señala Santa María. 

Esta manipulación de los datos sobre Ucrania es "una hipocresía informativa" por parte de Occidente con el fin de "preparar un golpe de Estado con toda claridad". "Ese es el libreto verdadero", asegura Santa María. 

El experto opina que es lo mismo "que Nicolás Maduro impidió en Venezuela, adonde llegaron los funcionarios estadounidenses y otros europeos a entregar visas pero en realidad lo que estaban haciendo era aleccionar a los activistas venezolanos para atacar al Gobierno".  

"Lo que están haciendo en Ucrania es decir: 'Nosotros los protegeremos'", afirma el analista y agrega que "lo delicado es que se sabe que hoy día los terroristas sirios Al Qaeda y los chechenos están presentes en Kiev". "Sabemos que la UE y EE.UU. financian esos grupos", subraya Santa María. 

El experto concluyó que "es hora de aplicar la Constitución en Ucrania, decir 'no' a más injerencia extranjera". "El Gobierno tomará las decisiones y así tiene que ser, porque hoy día lo que se ve es que esta llamada 'revolución' es simplemente terrorismo", subrayó Santa María.

jueves, 13 de febrero de 2014

Sistemas resistentes a ciberamenazas y otras ciberguerras

Esta semana parece que ya no hay que preocuparse por ocultar la carrera militar de todos los países en el mundo de Internet, así que bastaba con leer unas cuantas noticias para que saliera que si China está preparando unas pruebas de Ciberguerra en una base militar de Mongolia, que si el ejercito de Indonesia prepara una unidad militar altamente entrenada para operar en Internet o que los americanos se quejan de ataques de robo de información militar por parte de China.


De todas esas noticias y artículos hay dos que creo que merece la pena darles una lectura. El primero de ellos es del Departamento de Defensa Americano que aboga por Sistemas Militares Resistentes y las Ciberamenazas Avanzadas. En ese diseño que propone creo que les encaja muy bien la idea que os dejé por aquí de diseño de sistemas "Pentesting by Desing" para que soporten un pentesting continuo 24x7durante 365 días al año.

Figura 1: Sistemas Militares Resistentes y las Ciberamenazas Avanzadas

Además, de él, lo más curioso ha sido este párrafo que os dejo aquí donde - supongo que para meter mucho miedo a los que gestionan el presupuesto de los USA - se afirma que se ha sufrido el robo de información técnica detallada de cómo funcionan ciertos sistemas de defensa de alta importancia para la seguridad nacional. 

Figura 2: El enemigo está en nuestras redes, dice el Departamento de Defensa Americano

El otro informe que creo que os debéis leer es el de Operation HangOver, donde desde Norman se  intenta descubrir cómo desde la India se está haciendo algo similar a lo que apuntaba el informe Mandiant sobre APT1 de China. Es decir, que también hay un ciberjercito de índios dedicado al ciberespionaje.

Figura 3: Informe sobre las actividades de ciberguerra desde India

A este grupo se le atribuye el malware utilizado en ataques dirigidos contra activistas africanos firmado digitalmente con un Apple Developer ID para infectar equipos OS X Mountain Lion - al que se llamó OSX/KitM.a - y del que se encontraron más muestras usando Virus Total. Vamos, que si te apasiona este mundo de losincidentes de ciberespionaje y ciberguerra tienes para leer un rato.

Source: http://www.elladodelmal.com/2013_05_01_archive.html

domingo, 9 de febrero de 2014

"The new rich have gotten into the castle and have erected barricades"




Zygmunt Bauman, during his visit to Madrid. (EFE)

Smiling happy when he finds an ashtray in the room that the Rafael del Pino Foundation has enabled press interviews. Heavy smoker, has his pipe (off) hand during the conversation, which shows an unexpected vitality to its nearly ninety. Zygmunt Bauman, born in Poland in 1925, resides in the United Kingdom since 1971, where he taught at the University of Leeds, but was from the 90s when his work became popular, becoming the sociologist of reference, through conceptual contributions as liquid society. Late success prolific author says write as before, only now it published. Spain granted him in 2010 the Prince of Asturias Award for Humanities, ex aequo with Alain Touraine.

In his latest book published in Spain, does the wealth of the few benefits us all? (Polity Press), Bauman refutes these popular thesis according to which we live in a better world because there are more global wealth. "We can assess how the world is doing average, but the average human being does not exist, is a statistical fiction. A very enlightening research, by Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett [edited by Turner in Spain entitled Inequality] shows how the quality of life of a society is not measured by the median income, but by the degree of inequality income. Alcoholism, violence, crime and other social pathologies when they do increase inequality but global wealth will increase. "

We are not in a good time, says the sociologist, because we fallback, returning to levels of imbalance believed to have left for good. Bauman notes that in the three decades following World War II tried to state policies that would increase the total wealth, but also their distribution reached as many people as possible, so that more people could join a club situation . However, from the 70s, this trend changed direction, now accelerating alarmingly. Bauman uses words of Pope Francisco to point out how these differences in income have become too obvious "a minority earnings are growing exponentially, which causes also grow the gap between the vast majority of the prosperity enjoyed those few happy. "

"Nobody feels safe today. Nobody trusts the future "
The social consequences of this separation are remarkable. Firstly, because they build a radically different outlook on life. According to the author of Postmodernism and its discontents in societies of mid-twentieth century there was a middle class looking confidently to the future, which seemed to live better, and a dwindling proletariat composed of people living near or below the poverty line. But today, "that distinction is blurring. The middle class and the proletarians are already part of a joint class, precariousness, people who are unsure of their future. Market laws imply that your company can be eaten by another and you dont go to the street, suddenly losing all earned in a lifetime. No one is safe today. Nobody trusts the future. "

A significant example of this loss of vital horizon appears in the new generations "which are the first since 1950 to not start his career from that achieved by their parents, but are concerned about trying to achieve and recreate the conditions under which they have lived. Do not look to the future, they are already folded defensively, and that's a very powerful change. "

Second, because a gap of this magnitude causes the company to lose all cohesion. The author of Work, consumerism and the new poor indicates that good macroeconomic indicators were concluded "because before we thought the wealth that was generated above would seep down and end up benefiting the whole. But the new millionaires have built a barricade from the rest of the population. They have been locked in the castle and have raised drawbridges. "

That attitude also involves breaking the unwritten agreement whereby privileges also entailed obligations. That moral duty were the most favored regarding persons who lived with them into a number of policies and business actions Bauman exemplified in the instant Henry Ford in the early twentieth century, "doubled wages to their workers arguing with humor that wanted employees who could buy the cars they manufactured. In doing so, he managed to be faithful to your company, but also established a relationship of mutual dependence. Now that relationship has been canceled unilaterally. "



A 'double bind' fatal
That sense of responsibility is lost because the new elites have been detached from the territories in which they reside. "They have no sense of belonging, so they have no relationship with the people around them that. Les just a laptop to transfer his entire fortune to a more accommodating country ... "The separation of this moral duty makes much more inhospitable societies as social ties inevitably break when the target becomes mere survival. "We have entered into a merciless world where you have to prove to your boss that you're irreplaceable, and where your main goal is that you do not throw when the next round of cuts comes." In this context, also the possibilities of resistance weaken, "because when rebelling involves only get fired and strike only causes the owners closed the business and lead to a country where wages are very low, it is more than likely nobody is mobilized. "

This hands tied we live in labor is a feature that fully defines our societies, the big problem has gone from 'what can we do' a 'who's going to do it.' According to Bauman, we get the politicians saying they are corrupt, they have no heart or who are only concerned with their own agenda, but even if they were honest and wise would still have to face what Gregory Bateson called double bind, a mandate in the two contradictory orders must be made at the same time. On the one hand, "politicians know they have to undergo re-election, and thus should listen to people and ask them what they promise, but otherwise have to deal with that stratum Manuel Castells called the space of flows, where live from the financial capital to the mafia, and easily resists local authorities. If you do not do what they want, they leave to a more hospitable site. If politicians follow the wishes of their voters, will be re-elected, but they can not carry out what they promised, when they undergo what is asked from this transnational power, be praised, but not re-elected. They have to reconcile the irreconcilable. "

According to Bauman, thirty years ago, national governments had in their hands the springs needed to activate the policies decided. Today, however, "we live in a divorce between power and politics. This home is maintained, as in the twentieth century, while the real power, which resides in the flow, is extraterritorial. The states were created for nations to control their own destinies, but now they are not prepared to handle the new situation "

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