On Wed, 5 Jun 1996, Rich Graves wrote:
On Wed, 5 Jun 1996, John Young wrote:
Today's USA has a pair of front page stories:
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.
He says that as if it were a bad thing...
"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."
Actually, he's probably right. If all the cypherpunks, say, turned "bad," there'd be no government and no economy, because so many big systems are so insecure.
One could make the case that this would actually make the United States (if c'punks concentrated their attentions there) the most data secure country on the planet over time. --- My preferred and soon to be permanent e-mail address:unicorn@schloss.li "In fact, had Bancroft not existed, potestas scientiae in usu est Franklin might have had to invent him." in nihilum nil posse reverti 00B9289C28DC0E55 E16D5378B81E1C96 - Finger for Current Key Information Opp. Counsel: For all your expert testimony needs: jimbell@pacifier.com