[lit-ideas] Re: Misunderstanding The information Age
- From: Eric Yost <mr.eric.yost@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 03 Oct 2005 14:32:31 -0400
Phil: So we are supposed to believe this braggadocio?
Eric: Well, the beloved President Clinton apparently felt it was
worth throwing some money at.
http://www.cnn.com/TECH/specials/hackers/cyberterror/
Bracing for guerrilla warfare in cyberspace
'There are lots of opportunities; that's very scary'
April 6, 1999
By John Christensen
CNN Interactive
(CNN) -- It is June, the children are out of school, and as highways
and airports fill with vacationers, rolling power outages hit
sections of Los Angeles, Chicago, Washington and New York. An
airliner is mysteriously knocked off the flight control system and
crashes in Kansas.
Parts of the 911 service in Washington fail, supervisors at the
Department of Defense discover that their e-mail and telephone
services are disrupted and officers aboard a U.S. Navy cruiser find
that their computer systems have been attacked.
As incidents mount, the stock market drops precipitously, and panic
surges through the population.
Unlikely? Hardly. The "electronic Pearl Harbor" that White House
terrorism czar Richard A. Clarke fears is not just a threat, it has
already happened.
Much of the scenario above -- except for the plane and stock market
crashes and the panic -- occurred in 1997 when 35 hackers hired by
the National Security Agency launched simulated attacks on the U.S.
electronic infrastructure.
<snip>
President Clinton announced in January 1999 a $1.46 billion
initiative to deal with U.S. government computer security -- a 40
percent increase over fiscal 1998 spending. Of particular concern is
the Pentagon, the military stronghold of the world's most powerful
nation.
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