Terrorism Hysteria on the Net

Today's USA has a pair of front page stories: "Feds ready anti-terror cyberteam" and "Terrorism on the Net -- Post-Cold War hysteria or a national threat?" They lay out the nightmares and the valiant TLA-daydreams to out-fund the hackers and out-flummox the public. "You bring me a select group of hackers and within 90 days I'll bring this country to its knees, " says Jim Settle, retired director of the FBI's computer crime squad. "The threat is there, it's very real," says CIA General Counsel Jeffrey Smith. "If we have a Unabomber who decides to launch an attack with a PC instead of a bomb, (there could be) real damage."