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Subject: Re: 6 USAF Crashes in 7 days = InfoWar? Date: Sat, 20 Sep 1997 11:31:04 -0700 (PDT) From: Mike Duvos <enoch@zipcon.net>

Why go in search of the complicated when stupidity is a perfectly acceptable explanation?

Well it really wasn't meant to be taken quite that literaly. It just seemed to me that a question of some import to this list might be how one tells such a statistical anomaly (if you'll allow me) from an actual concerted attack. What would the tale-tell's be for such a distinction? While full-blown war would not be hard to differentiate consider such an attack from a small group with an immediate and distinct goal as well as potential long-range goals. What sorts of processes and types of information would be of interest to a person who was tasked with evaluating such an occurance? Things like: - relationships between the history of the various participants, both mechanical and human - geographic relationships, weather comparisons, environmental conditions, etc. Consider your responce at first reading. That is a barrier that has to be jumped for such activities to be used effectively, wouldn't you think? This would indicate that an effective long-term strategy for a sect attack via the Internet would be advertising. Which would rule-out most real clandestine attacks as being from a small political or religous group. There is also the issue of talent recruitement and budget. So, with these sorts of issues in mind, what kinds of financial transactions might be of interest? And finaly, in such an environment can the elimination of non-GAK crypto really be effective? Is crypto really even an issue? Now consider, if you will, the requirements if we assume that we are under a concerted Pearl-Harbor attack from a rival 1st World power. How would that effect the issues discussed above? ____________________________________________________________________ | | | The financial policy of the welfare state requires that there | | be no way for the owners of wealth to protect themselves. | | | | -Alan Greenspan- | | | | _____ The Armadillo Group | | ,::////;::-. Austin, Tx. USA | | /:'///// ``::>/|/ http:// www.ssz.com/ | | .', |||| `/( e\ | | -====~~mm-'`-```-mm --'- Jim Choate | | ravage@ssz.com | | 512-451-7087 | |____________________________________________________________________|