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it's a target not only for the few extremists in suicide vests but from what you keystrokes on the computer the newest threat to american national security isn't coming by land sea or air it's cyber warfare that has the government worried and where there is fear there is also plenty of business opportunities will show you how contractors are making big bucks on america's internet insecurity. violence rages on in syria u.n. leaders are convening in new york to decide what to do that is

a non-binding resolution really the vast way to end the bloodshed or is it just another diplomatic blitz. new chanting russia is killing our children after a video and it's not only us diplomats that are mounting a strongly worded attack on syria's government the media is missing the mark again remoting american meddling in the middle east but failing to explain how u.s. interests are involved will explain. it's thursday february sixteenth four pm in washington d.c. i'm liz wall and you're watching r.t. . well we start we start off today with fears of a new war brewing in america but this one isn't in a combat zone and doesn't involve weapons cyber war is sparking fear among political leaders today rhetoric is heating up in washington on the dangers of

cyber war equal getting it to a form of terrorism the pentagon is responding by pumping money into enhancing cybersecurity and as arctic correspondent lucic half an hour ports military contractors are lining up to cash in on the latest military fear. it may seem like a quiet day in america but to some it's the scene of a raging battle invisible to the naked eye well there is war underway right now on the internet this is cyber war is the u.s. ready for a full scale cyber war a question asked at the highest levels of the u.s. government stoked by fears of a new type of wm d. a weapon of mass disruption in a world where acts of terror could come not only from a few extremists in suicide vests but from a few keystrokes on the computer the f.b.i. warns that those keystrokes could soon be more dangerous to america than terrorism itself the cyber threat well equal or surpass the threat from counterterrorism in

the forseeable future a future that's got the world's military soon. power preparing for the fight ahead of the next pearl harbor that we confront could very well be a cyber attack that cripples our our power system certainly our grid cyber war cyber pearl harbor frightening language for a hypothetical scenario one that could happen but hasn't yet and some security experts like jim harper warned that it never will because no chance whatsoever that nuclear power plants will be hacked that electric infrastructure will be hacked and taken down for any significant period of time so the worst we can expect is disruption that's not war it doesn't really terrorize so the threats are serious but they're not to the level of war or terror yet some of the key leaders in the war on terror are now in the business of cyber war michael chaired off once ran the department of homeland security he now runs

a cyber security consulting firm you could have a cyber attack that would be as consequential in terms of the economy and maybe even in terms of loss of life as things were to prepare your search it was more frightening once america's top spy chief mike mcconnell now oversees cyber operations for the events contracting giant where the most vulnerable nation on earth to a cyber attack and anti-terrorism czar richard clarke went from advising presidents on cyber security to publishing books about the coming cyber war for once it would be nice for the united states to be able to get out in front of a catastrophe to be able to prevent that catastrophe we know how to do it we just need to spend the money and the money is flowing the u.s. government will spend more than ten billion a year on cyber security by two thousand and fifteen in a worldwide market that's estimated at eighty to one hundred forty billion dollars a year the budget that we're releasing today it's one of the few areas where the

white house plans to increase spending despite other defense cuts. and that some say is the problem it's going to be even more tempting for folks in the you know the defense contracting community for example so hype cyber threats because that's one of the few stream that money you know sort of still exists forbes magazine contributor shawn lawson is an expert in cybersecurity it's a classic case of an attempt to sort of motivate a response by rally the troops by appealing to fear uncertainty and inside the beltway fear and uncertainty can lead to big business and big bucks most people don't understand the problems with computer and data security most people in washington don't understand it specifically most people in congress don't understand therefore the quote unquote beltway bandits are in a position to to create the problem to state the problem and offer their own services as a solution. a battle does rage here invisible to the naked eye the war for money

contracts and talent to seek out. washington a lot of talk more about the growing fears over cyber war and what the government is doing about it i'm joined now by kohn how a man a columnist for foreign policy in focus welcome come on so what do you make of the new fears over cyber war is it potentially be warfare of the future. well if it didn't cost so much money and it didn't involve bashing china and russia to a certain extent it would be kind of amusing unfortunately it is an extremely expensive endeavor and we're creating this enormous infrastructure both in the civilian side on the military side and you know once you put these infrastructures in place once you create these organizations they deal with intelligence and things three hundred of them and so i think that you've got

a real problem here not simply in terms of that a lot of this is aimed at china but what it means for privacy here in the united states because fear drives people to do some very silly things and you know we are seeing the military scrambling to obtain new cyber cyber scales are the fears justified or are they blown out of proportion they're brought in very much out of proportion a the earlier program reported clarke's thing about the fact that there would be this collapse of the infrastructure and things like that you couldn't shut down our grid in the united states was we don't have a national power grid we have more than one hundred separate power grids you know these are the kinds of things that people bring up a tree or it is an enormous motivator in the united states and particularly if people are using cell phones and computers and when i have these things work so many said some of the take those things over are going to make i'm not work you

can't go to the bank and get this and then people get scared and so they said well protect us and that's where the problem upset and con this has a lawmakers are very concerned here as congressman mike rogers he's the chairman of the house intelligence committee harry is talking on the i have ak is on its way. we will suffer a catastrophic cyber attack the clock is ticking meanwhile f.b.i. director robert mueller has said that the dangers of cyber attacks will equal or surpass the dangers of terrorism in the foreseeable future how do you feel about cyber warfare being equated to terrorism. i don't think there's any relationship to it at all i think most of this site first of all it's not cyber warfare most of the cyber stuff that goes on is industrial supply that's been going on sense marco polo bought silkworms out of china everybody's trying to get the edge on various kinds

of things as moving to a cyber warfare itself and i think there's a real danger here because people use the term war and the pentagon start putting up policies where they're going to shoot missiles at people who they think are are using cyber attacks and stuff and this is very dangerous stuff and go back you know in the one nine hundred fifteen c. it was the threat of communism in the in the one thousand nets sixty's it was the threat of nuclear war in the in the one nine hundred ninety s. it's been the threat of terrorism americans are constantly bombarded with messages of fear and what it makes them do is it makes them give up things and in this case they're giving up a lot of very very basic democratic rights to privacy but we are seeing groups for example anonymous hacking into see at cia as a web sites among many others so isn't that

a sign that the government needs to crack down on security measures as well that's very interesting because the government won't really do what they want to do which is they want what you really want to defend yourself you encrypt everything traceable the easiest thing to do. and it's absolutely secure the government doesn't want to do that the government doesn't want to do that because the military doesn't want to do it the military doesn't want your computer or cell phones except for to be protected by encrypted software because they want to be able to have a backdoor into people's computers their cell phones their i pads whatever the simplest way to deal with this is encrypted and the military will fight. tooth and nail to prevent that so my feeling about it is ok anonymous breaks into the cia or the international monetary fund what do they do if you hear about them breaking in what kind of damage did get gets done if you notice that economy is

collapsing as a result of of so-called cyber warfare i mean this and that as it doesn't bear a fear that they could become more advanced and you know get the ability to to do so. well the thing is that most financial institutions are fully protected the idea that the united states is way behind is just nonsense and but you know as this is way ahead of the curve here there's always going to be someone who's going to get your your password and break into your bank account or you know something i got that's always going to be out there but this is not a complex thing to stop this is actually quite easy to stop then it's for instance you're not the slightest bit worried about this at all and i think the problem is again it's this atmosphere of fear and using pearl harbor and then talking about china i mean you know that sounds like we are equating china with imperial japan we

fought a war against imperial japan russia's did do you know that's that's the kind of hype which can lead to secure it once was all right thank you so much for for away again on this essay that was con helen and columnists for foreign policy in focus. my pleasure. well the u.n. general assembly today set to vote on a resolution that condemns the assad regime in syria the west and several arab countries are calling for the syrian leader to step down blaming him for the brutal crackdown and deaths of over five thousand people now today's vote in the general assembly is mostly a symbolic one while it's not binding it does a strong message that reflects world opinion well today's vote comes after china and russia vetoed a similar resolution in the u.n. security council a move which has infuriated other members well to bring us the latest on the developments out of the u.n. are to correspond marina joins us now live from new york. so what is the latest

over there. well the latest. in just a few moments i have to say we will be seeing a vote the vote is actually taking place right now shortly within the general assembly on this draft resolution which you just referred to which essentially backs the arab league plan that calls for syrian president bashar al assad to step aside and hand over his powers it also condemns the syrian authorities for file leading human rights fundamental freedoms and using force against civilians and even killing protesters now the reason the russian federation and other countries have said they will not support this draft resolution is because the argument is that it is not balanced russia says that this draft resolution does not condemn the armed opposition for also participating in the ongoing violence over

the past eleven months also russia and china with their vetoes twelve days ago when the security council underscored the fact that the united nations be it the separate the security council or the general assembly should be used as a tool to enforce regime change in countries in sovereign countries instead in particular in this case is the syrian people that should be deciding the future of their country having said that though seventy countries at the least are co-sponsoring this draft resolution that ultimately condemns syrian authorities for what's taking place right now but so an arab country has rejected the amendments proposed by russia what are the concerns that russia has over this draft of the resolution. well the concerns the same concerns that russia has been voicing over the past weeks and months is that it's not balance the text in the general assembly draft and previously in the security council draft is not balanced because

it holds one side responsible whereas in russia's opinion there are the opposition groups there are many that are armed and are participating in the violence and acting out against syrian authorities who according to russia have also fallen victim to the ongoing conflict instead as we've been reporting russia has proposed to host a dialogue between the syrian authorities and representatives of the opposition groups in syria to host that dialogue in moscow right now it's been a problem to get both sides to come to the table but at this point you know there's a draft text on the table that russia believes is not balance and sends the wrong signal now this vote is a symbolic wand so it's non-binding what then do they hope to achieve through this . well you know you can't discredit the fact that it does symbolize

a lot it's right that it's not binding there's no legal implication but at the very least this does put pressure on the assad government and it also gives the arab league and its western countries supporting the arab league some type of political power to possibly come back to the security council with or to maybe try to discuss a new draft with russia and china because when you see that two thirds of the general assembly there's one hundred ninety three countries that make up the general assembly of the united nations if two thirds of of the general assembly is supporting a draft resolution that condemns this syrian authority and supports the arab league's plans for you know asking president assad to step down it does signal some type of international consensus not a complete consensus but it does symbolize what the majority of u.n.

members are supporting marie and i thank you very much for keeping us updated over there and we will continue to check in with you for the vague very latest on the situation that is unfolding there right now that was an eye on our new york studio . well as you can see and the u.n. it's the west versus russia and china when it comes to how to handle syria but it seems to be the same story and the u.s. media today amid the name calling and the finger pointing are some of the facts being overlooked aren't these honest explains well it's getting serious in syria i mean very serious the syrian crisis at a peak diplomatic tensions flying high the united states is disgusted that a couple members of this council continue to prevent us from feeling our sole purpose here as american officials switch on the traditional approach of dealing with regimes they just don't like assad is crazy.