Citing a specific example, the DSB report said one building in Savannah, Ga., (a Bell South switching facility, FCW learned) houses not only a vital communications hub but information technology systems supporting key electric power and transportation companies. Because Savannah serves as a vital port of embarkation for Army troops based in that area, an IW attack against that one building would "make it impossible to deploy military forces at the pace specified in operations plans."
These recommendations included a controversial call for the Pentagon to have
Then again so would a decent breifcase bomb. the legal power to protect nongovernmental portions of the ^^^^^^^ Someone mispelled "Take Over".
infrastructure in the name of "the common defense." To defend DOD and i critical nongovernmental systems against IW, the report recommends new legal authority that will allow "DOD, law enforcement and intelligence agencies to conduct efficient, coordinated monitoring of attacks on the critical civilian information infrastructure...."
In carving out a position for DOD to take on this role in the civil sector,i
information warfare is a form of warfare, not a crime or an act of terror." It took an equally blunt approach on how the Pentagon should respond to such an attack or intrusion. "The response could entail civil or criminal
I would bet that with the possible execption of TEMPEST (and I doubt even then) private industry could do the job cheaper, and more thoroughly than the DOD. the report bluntly summed up the problem: "We should not forget prosecution, use of military force...diplomatic initiatives or economic
mandates."
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to surviving willful malicious attack, or detecting and eliminating corrupt software."
As opposed to a benevolent attack? or maybe a friendly attack?
"For them to blatantly say, `We want to monitor,' that creates a huge problem," he said. "If the government says, `You don't worry, private sector, we're going to take care of you,' they're going to have a problem."
Hmmm.... I must have taken a wrong turn somewhere. I thought this was america, land of the free. Can anyone give me directions on how to get there from here... Petro, Christopher C. petro@suba.com <prefered for any non-list stuff> snow@smoke.suba.com