At 11:01 PM 3/16/96 -0500, winn@Infowar.Com wrote:
C A L L F O R P A P E R S
InfoWarCon 5, 1996 Fifth International Information Warfare Conference "Dominating the Battlefields of Business and War" September 5-6, 1996 Washington, DC Sponsored by: Winn Schwartau, Interpact, Inc. National Computer Security Association Robert Steele, Open Source Solutions, Inc.
Information Warfare represents a global challenge that faces all late-industrial and information age nation states. It also represents the easiest and cheapest way for less developed nation-states and religious or political movements to anonymously and grievously attack major nations and international corporations.
This Fifth International Conference on Information Warfare is an unclassified, open source conference, and will examine US and global perspectives on all three classes of Information Warfare:
I'm wondering if I should bother re-writing my "Assassination Politics" essay into the form of a paper and submitting it to these people. While it might nominally be considered right down their alley, from a subject standpoint, even a cursory look at the location (Washington, DC) and the invited people (large companies and military) suggest that my ideas would be just about as welcome as a yarmulke at a Nazi Party convention. I'm not aware of the agenda (hidden or otherwise) of the sponsors, so I don't know whether I should even bother. Many people aren't particularly appreciative of being "one-upped" (not to mention made obsolete) so it's not clear that they'd give me the time of day. Any ideas as to their receptiveness? Jim Bell jimbell@pacifier.com