ABCnews/Nightline on Cyber Terror 8-Dec-97
Last night, ABC news once again stroked the fires of fear and raised the boogieman of "Hackers" destroying the goverment, banks, power plants, ad nauseum. Of course, the main guest was from the US Govt's new trumpeter of CyberTerrorizm, "the President's Commission on Critical Infrastructure Protection". A full transcript is available. _______________________________________________________ Revolution in a Box -- Cyber Terror -- AIR DATE: Monday, Dec. 8, 1997 http://www.abcnews.com/onair/nightline/html_files/transcripts/ntl1208.html ABC technology correspondent Gina Smith investigates the vulnerability of our nations computer systems and what is being done to protect them from the threat of hackers. Guest: Jamie Gorelick, co-chair, Advisory Committee of the Presidents Commission on Critical Infrastructure Protection Jamie Gorelick: Well, there are a number of things we can do. I mean, the effort that has been started already is one to build a partnership between the government and the private sector to work together to know when were being attacked, to share information, to ensure that we have the right research and eventually to be in a position to respond to an attack with the best efforts we can.
I seem to recall X Four writing:
Last night, ABC news once again stroked the fires of fear and raised the boogieman of "Hackers" destroying the goverment, banks, power plants, ad nauseum. Of course, the main guest was from the US Govt's new trumpeter of CyberTerrorizm, "the President's Commission on Critical Infrastructure Protection". A full transcript is available. http://www.abcnews.com/onair/nightline/html_files/transcripts/ntl1208.html
I recommend that those concerned light a fire under the media's collective large @sses on the issue concerning the government's history of lofty morals concerning their citizens and their computers. I have been epistle-ing all afternoon. Rick
R Bradley wrote:
I seem to recall X Four writing:
Last night, ABC news once again stroked the fires of fear and raised the boogieman of "Hackers" destroying the goverment, banks, power plants, ad nauseum. Of course, the main guest was from the US Govt's new trumpeter of CyberTerrorizm, "the President's Commission on Critical Infrastructure Protection". A full transcript is available. http://www.abcnews.com/onair/nightline/html_files/transcripts/ntl1208.html
I recommend that those concerned light a fire under the media's collective large @sses on the issue concerning the government's history of lofty morals concerning their citizens and their computers. I have been epistle-ing all afternoon.
Rick
Perhaps we should point out to the media (and everyone else who has his ears connected to his brain) that the implementation of GAK will make the Cyber Terrorism scenario _inevitable_ not just possible. After all, if the government's thesis is that the entire commercial infrastructure could be cracked by hackers, they should readily accept, as a fact, that GAK makes the info terrorist's job easier. Those terrorists would simply subvert the access mechanisms to GAK and gain access to _everyone's_ keys. -- Martin G. Diehl Sig under construction
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