[iwar] Classic infowar story
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Date: Mon, 6 Nov 2000 07:03:41 -0800 (PST)
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Subject: [iwar] Classic infowar story
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MSNBC technology news
10-30-00 Seattle WA
Paul Shukovsky Seattle PI reporter
Summary: A fedral investigation has uncovered that a Russian mathematician
who was working witht a scientist from Lockheed's Skunk Works probably stole
top secret information about the company's stealth technology. The
mathematician, Aleksey Yeremin, had worked for the USSR at a plant near
Moscow that was responsible for the design and development of new Soviet
aircraft. Sometime in the late 1980's, he moved to the United States and
developed a new alogrithm that was a short cut that allowed some of the
supercompter work to be accomplished on much smaller, inexpensive computers.
For this reason, Lockheed allowed one of its scientist to work with Yeremin
on some stealth projects. Yeremin was able to manipulate the Lockheed
scientist and gained access to information that was classified and some
information that wasn't classified, but should have been. According to the
scientist, who's name was not provided, he had informed the security at
Lockheed about every request for information from Yeremin. The scientist
divulged that there appeared to be an attitude of indifference towarsd the
requests and there were no real security checks and balances. Some of the
information that was jeopardized included the simulators for the reactions
of stealth aircraft to different radar waves and possibly the entire U.S.
stealth capability.
Type of attack: human engineering and excess privilege.
Threat type: foreign agent/ spy
Damage assessment: Major damage could be doen if the information that was
stolen turns out to be the worst case scenario. If the Russian was able to
gain information on the entire stealth systems, then Russia could begin
developement of it's own stealth technology and this could ruin the US
monopoly on this technology and upset the world stage. Additionally, the
Russinas could sell this information to rogue country's that could develope
stealth projectiles that could be a real surprise.
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