01.02.2008 01:36 Uhr, Quelle: Engadget

Pentagon's "Cyber Storm" war game simulates blogger leaks, train disorder -- wait, blogger leaks?

Filed under: Misc. GadgetsYou've got to give the Pentagon credit for imagining every possible threat scenario in its latest wargame, dubbed "Cyber Storm," but the plotline this time around is pretty wild. Starting with an electronic attack on the Port Authority of New Jersey, major new networks and bloggers spread "believable but misleading" information without revealing their sources -- all while hundred of people on the "no-fly" list stream into airports, DC's Metro trains shut down, air traffic control towers in Philly and Chicago are disrupted, and mysterious liquids are found on the tube in London. That's quite an afternoon -- but we're taking offense to the Pentagon's classification of the press an

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