Everyone knows the drill by now: Exercises go live

Editor's note: Prepare yourselves for what comes on the day of the 2024 US presidential election with a "cybersecurity exercise" on the very same day November 5th. The US military has something planned for the internet describing it as a "large-scale interactive event." Everyone knows the drill by now: Exercises go live. This time an exercise "creating reasonable cover?" Maybe Americans should contact Paul Wertz who is President of AFCEA Atlanta and suggest postponing the event until well after the election?
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Breaking: Major National Cybersecurity Exercise on Election Day; What???

By Jon Rappoport | October 22, 2024

Background: "AFCEA [Armed Forces Communications & Electronics Association International] Atlanta [Chapter] Homeland Security Conference on Critical Infrastructure, November 6-7, 2024, with a large scale cybersecurity exercise on November 5, 2024" (link in footnote below)

—On Nov. 5, ELECTION DAY, there will be a special cybersecurity exercise at the Conference.

Get this. The exercise is described as a large-scale interactive event, with participants from federal, state, county, city government agencies, academia, and industry.

The exercise will simulate a cyber-attack on "critical infrastructure."

That's right. It's a so-called "Jack Voltaic"-type exercise, which was developed to test responses to attacks on large infrastructures.

QUITE odd to schedule the exercise on Election Day.

QUITE odd to run an exercise simulating a cyber-attack on critical infrastructure ON ELECTION DAY, especially since electronic voting across the nation IS a piece of critical infrastructure.

IF bad actors were looking to mess with electronic voting, this exercise would create a reasonable cover and method.

If the actors wanted to rig electronic voting and needed an excuse to explain "anomalies" in the vote count, or to explain a sudden shut-down of key voting precincts, the cyber-exercise would provide those explanations.

"Well, you see, there was a temporary glitch owing to the fact that, parallel to Election Day voting, Homeland Security was running a crucial but unrelated cyber-exercise, and 'wires were crossed,' so to speak…"

“Nothing to see here, the problem was fixed, and the exercise proceeded, as did the vote count. Occasionally, these things happen. Homeland Security assures us that voting was not impeded…"

"Of course, some people are spreading rumors and conspiracy theories about ‘altered vote counts’. These accusations are entirely unfounded. The Homeland Security exercise had nothing to do with the vote count…" "Accusations of vote rigging are very serious. They could be, in some cases, considered a form of election interference (if we, the government, want to shut people up and shut them down and obscure what we're really doing)…"

—But again, scheduling a major Homeland Security cyber-exercise simulating an attack on critical infrastructure? ON ELECTION DAY? Really?

At the very least, it’s a great way for government to get people to distrust government.

CODA: You might be interested in reading the Wikipedia entry for the group, AFCEA, which is sponsoring the upcoming November Conference and the cyber-security exercise. It reads in part:

"Armed Forces Communications & Electronics Association International (AFCEA), established in 1946, is a nonprofit membership association serving the military, government, industry, and academia as a forum for advancing professional knowledge and relationships in the fields of communications, information technology, intelligence and global security. AFCEA provides a forum for military, government, academic and industry communities with altogether more than 30,000 members. AFCEA supports local chapters, sponsors events, publishes a magazine, promotes STEM education and provides member benefits.

"SIGNAL, not to be confused with the German Signal magazine, is a monthly [AFCEA] international news magazine targeting government, military and industry professionals active in the information technology and intelligence fields. The magazine was started in 1946. Among the topics covered in the magazine are command, control, communications, computers, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (C4ISR); information security; cybersecurity; research and development; artificial intelligence, machine learning, big data, cloud technologies, electronics; and homeland security."

Link: 2024 Homeland Security Critical Infrastructure Conference

Part 2, Attack on critical US infrastructure—a simulated exercise—will take place on ELECTION DAY

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This needs to be looked at. Why is the government running a large-scale cyber security exercise on election day. This is all different government agencies participating in the ex excise and 2 day conference following election day. Could be innocent, but optics are terrible!… pic.twitter.com/E0hcRPo83A

— Billy Hughes (@DemsAreLost) October 20, 2024

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