At 11:19 AM -0800 5/13/97, Ryan Anderson wrote:
On Tue, 13 May 1997, Tim May wrote:
As for transmitters in printers, this sounds like a variant. Plus, I wouldn't think there was enough time between the start of the buildup of the U.S. response and the air attacks for the plan to be hatched, for the Iraqis to place and receive orders, etc. And the chance of some random printer ending up in an air defense station seems unlikely. And so on.
Besides the fact that the US wasn't exporting anything to IRAQ at the time, along with most of the rest of the western world, where would they have bought printers from?
Well, of course the U.S. wasn't shipping to Iraq at this time. I didn't even cite this as a reason because the embargo began in August of 1990. The original Infoworld story cited Jordan (if I remember correctly) as the place the printers had the viruses placed in them, to make the story sound more plausible. I do believe the U.S. has used information warfare methods, of course. Lots of examples, including Inslaw and Systematics, etc. --Tim May There's something wrong when I'm a felon under an increasing number of laws. Only one response to the key grabbers is warranted: "Death to Tyrants!" ---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---- Timothy C. May | Crypto Anarchy: encryption, digital money, tcmay@got.net 408-728-0152 | anonymous networks, digital pseudonyms, zero W.A.S.T.E.: Corralitos, CA | knowledge, reputations, information markets, Higher Power: 2^1398269 | black markets, collapse of governments. "National borders aren't even speed bumps on the information superhighway."