infowar Digest for 14 Nov 1996 Topics covered in this issue include: 1: Flight Information Resource by Betty@infowar.com 2: Flight Information Resource by Betty@infowar.com -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 Message:0001 1 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- To: infowar@infowar.com From: "Betty G. O'Hearn" <betty@infowar.com> Subject: Infowar Thursday November 14 1996 Volume 01: Number 03 We thank our sponsors: Internet Security Solutions New Dimensions International - Security Training Secure Computing Corporation HOMECOM Communications National Computer Security Association OPEN SOURCE SOLUTIONS, Inc. __________________________________________________ Infowar@infowar.com is brought to you in the the interest of an open,= unclassified exchange of information and ideas as a means for advancement= of Information Warfare related issues. Topics of discussion for this list= include: Infowar, Electronic Civil Defense, Hacking, Defensive Techniques,= Policy, Non-Lethals, Psyops, Chemical Warfare Agents and WMD.=20 As the list expands we will adapt to the needs and desires of our= subscribers.=20 __________________________________________________________ To: Infowar@infowar.com From: winn@infowar.com Subject: MCTL Process Infowar.com is proud to have been given permission to publish the=20 latest Military Critical Technologies List - Part I: Weapons Systems=20 Technologies.=20 THE MCTL Process is the systemic ongoing assessment and analyses of= technologies to determine which technologies are Militarily Critical and= therefore should have additional controlsplaced on them or made subject to= export control.=20 This document is the first of three parts. Part two: Weapons of Mass=20 Production and Part three: Critical Developing Technologies are in= development=20 and will be published when completed and made available to us. Don't miss= =20 reading this! Download Acrobat as the file is in .pdf format. (acrobat= readers are free) This file will be posted the week of November 17 1996. ------------------------------------------------------------ To: Betty@infowar.com From: "Eric L. Nelson, M.A." <enelson@nosc.mil> Subject: G-TWO RECRUITMENT FORM Sender: owner-g-two@majordomo.netcom.com Please use this ammended form to inform your DOD intel and CI colleagues about g-two. Please discard previous editions. Thanks, EL Nelson moderator Get The Word Out (G-TWO) is designed to provide direct assistance=20 to DOD intelligence and counterintelligence teams by providing=20 open-source intelligence and news summaries pertinent to DOD=20 interests. Topics include: Political: Politics of intelligence. Political history of hotspots/groups/personalities. Information: WWW locations of intelligence usefulness with brief summaries. Lists, databases, and archives accessible via the internet. Resource sharing. NBC-M (nuclear, biological, chemical & medical): Biochem threat analysis/events (outbreaks). Medical technology and issues related to DOD missions/personnel. Tracking the development of NBC capabilities by country/group. Terrorism: Threat/threat mindsets/tactical intent. Issues related to security and threat issues. International Crime. New developments in terrorism. New technology/weapons systems with CT application. Info. on capability of Special Teams/personnel. Military/Intel Agencies: Force protection. OPSEC. Military plans/policies. =20 Reports on terrorism/counter-terrorism activities. Data on military forces and capabilities (order of battle). Analysis: More analysis by SME's (subject matter experts). Emerging threat analysis. EOD/chemical analysis. Group profies (themes, objectives, etc.) Who are these people? Cultural profiles and key info/customs to know. Technology & Industrial: Hacking/Infowar. Technology/precursor tracking, what is being procured by others. Industrial/technical intelligence on foreign countries-=20 what are they doing? Other: Central/South American, and Caribbean information. =20 Psychological profiles/cultural profiles of groups/personalities. Deception. Stateless Warfare Issues (gangs, 4th generation warfare). State department info. =20 Washington Early Bird news summaries. =20 World hot spot info. Information warfare. Daily news articles on terrorism and related issues State Department country studies State Department terrorist groups/personalities files Emergency News Network (ENN) updates Intelligent Concepts Daily News Summaries Special support tasking News flashes More to be added soon! MEMBERSHIP: Limited to DOD intelligence and counterintelligence personnel, (active, reserve, or retired). Non-DOD intel/CI applicants may request a waiver by demonstrating a need for=20 inclusion, (such as law enforcement intelligence, FBI, etc.) To apply for membership answer the following questions and email to Eric Nelson at: =20 enelson@rohan.sdsu.edu <send the following> NAME/RANK: MILITARY UNIT/ORG: JOB TITLE: EMAIL ADDRESS: REG/RES/RET? NAME OF PERSON WHO REFERRED YOU (MANDATORY): <clip here and send> ------------------------------------------------------------ From: "Robert A. Walton" <waltonr@meade-emh2.army.mil>=20 Subject: DC Area Infowar Event Cc: "Betty G. O'Hearn" <betty@infowar.com> Date: Thu, 14 Nov 1996 17:04:22 +0000 You may wish to post the following notice. The Maryland chapter of Armed Forces Communications and Electronics=20 Association will have a luncheon meeting at the Fort Meade Officer's Club=20 on Tuesday, 19 November. The lunch is at 11:45, the program follows at=20 12:30. The speaker is Brigadier General Jaeger. The topic is=20 "Information Warfare Exercise Lessons Learned." The cost is $10.00 for the luncheon if you register today or Friday, or=20 $12.00 at the door Tuesday. If you are interested in going, please call=20 Vicki Neuman at 301-317-9474 to make a reservation. Thanks Bob Walton ------------------------------------------------------------ To: infowar@infowar.com From: aludwig@pacbell.net Subject: Legal aspects of information warfare My name is Aaron Ludwig and I am a third year law student at Whittier Law=20 School. I am currently writing a law review article about the legal=20 aspects of information warfare. If anyone has any insight or helpful=20 information regarding this topic please contact me at=20 aaronludwig@juno.com or simply reply to this mail. The following are=20 just a few of the questions I hope to analyze and answer: If the U.S. sustains an information-based attack, does this warrant an=20 armed response?(i.e., what constitutes an attack?) What laws are involved in carrying out or defending against information=20 attacks? What laws are involved in the detection of enemy information=20 warriors? Last, but not least, I wonder whether anyone can tell me how to get a=20 hold of the proceedings of any of the information warfare conferences. =20 Keep in mind that I am a highly-leveraged (broke) law student. Thank you. Aaron ------------------------------------------------------------ To: Infowar@infowar.com From: Betty@infowar.com Subject: Defense Science Board Task Force Defense Science Board Task Force on Information Warfare-Defense=20 (IW-D), will be issuing a report in the next few days. Federal Computer= Week=20 has an interesting article stating that the report called the threat of an= IW=20 attack "significant," adding that the nation's "vulnerabilities are= numerous,=20 [and] the countermeasures are extremely limited...." You can read the= article at=20 http://www.fcw.com/pubs/fcw/1111/duck.htm. We will be publishing the= report=20 as it is made available to us. ------------------------------------------------------------ Date: 11 Nov 1996 20:13:20 CST Subject: Flight Information Resource Sender: owner-g-two@majordomo.netcom.com ENN Info Update 11/11/96 - 20:00CST New Information Resource Assists in Tracking Domestic Flights (ENN) A free service called "Flight Trax" is now available on the World-Wide-Web. This new information resource allows one to track the progress of any domestic airflight within the contigious 48 states. Call up: http://www.amerwxcncpt.com/ with your favorite internet browser. The program will ask you for the flight number, the airline, and= the destination airport (using the FAA designated three-letter code). The= program will then show you the kind of aricraft used, its flight's path, its location on that path (accurate to within two or three minutes), and its expected time of arrival at its destination. It will not tell you why it may have been delayed. The information is provided by Flyte-Comm of Ft. Lauderdale, FL, which uses data from the FAA to produce the flight estimates. Might be prove useful while waiting for Grandma's flight to come in from Des Moines, or a variety of other uses. Courtesy of: EmergencyNet News Service Emergency Response & Research Institute 6348 N. Milwaukee Ave., #312 Chicago, IL. 60646 (773) 631-3774 - Voice (773) 631-4703 - Fax (773) 631-3467 - Modem/Emergency BBS On-Line http://www.emergency.com - Website enn@emergency.com - E-mail ------------------------------------------------------------ END Infowar Thursday November 14 1996 Volume 01: Number 03 DIRECT REQUESTS to: list@infowar.com with one-line in the BODY, NOT in the subject line. Subscribe infowar TO JOIN GROUP Unsubscribe infowar TO LEAVE GROUP Help infowar TO RECEIVE HELP=20 TO POST A MESSAGE: E-Mail to infowar@infowar.com =20 _____________________________________________________ Infowar.Com Interpact, Inc. Winn Schwartau winn@infowar.com http://www.infowar.com 813-393-6600 Voice 813-393-6361 FAX Sponsor Opportunities/Comments/Help Betty G. O'Hearn Assistant to Winn Schwartau http://www.infowar.com betty@infowar.com 813-367-7277 Voice 813-363-7277 FAX -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2 Message:0002 2 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- To: infowar@infowar.com From: "Betty G. O'Hearn" <betty@infowar.com> Subject: Infowar Thursday November 14 1996 Volume 01: Number 03 We thank our sponsors: Internet Security Solutions New Dimensions International - Security Training Secure Computing Corporation HOMECOM Communications National Computer Security Association OPEN SOURCE SOLUTIONS, Inc. __________________________________________________ Infowar@infowar.com is brought to you in the the interest of an open, unclassified exchange of information and ideas as a means for advancement of Information Warfare related issues. Topics of discussion for this list include: Infowar, Electronic Civil Defense, Hacking, Defensive Techniques, Policy, Non-Lethals, Psyops, Chemical Warfare Agents and WMD. As the list expands we will adapt to the needs and desires of our subscribers. __________________________________________________________ To: Infowar@infowar.com From: winn@infowar.com Subject: MCTL Process Infowar.com is proud to have been given permission to publish the latest Military Critical Technologies List - Part I: Weapons Systems Technologies. THE MCTL Process is the systemic ongoing assessment and analyses of technologies to determine which technologies are Militarily Critical and therefore should have additional controlsplaced on them or made subject to export control. This document is the first of three parts. Part two: Weapons of Mass Production and Part three: Critical Developing Technologies are in development and will be published when completed and made available to us. Don't miss reading this! Download Acrobat as the file is in .pdf format. (acrobat readers are free) This file will be posted the week of November 17 1996. ------------------------------------------------------------ To: Betty@infowar.com From: "Eric L. Nelson, M.A." <enelson@nosc.mil> Subject: G-TWO RECRUITMENT FORM Sender: owner-g-two@majordomo.netcom.com Please use this ammended form to inform your DOD intel and CI colleagues about g-two. Please discard previous editions. Thanks, EL Nelson moderator Get The Word Out (G-TWO) is designed to provide direct assistance to DOD intelligence and counterintelligence teams by providing open-source intelligence and news summaries pertinent to DOD interests. Topics include: Political: Politics of intelligence. Political history of hotspots/groups/personalities. Information: WWW locations of intelligence usefulness with brief summaries. Lists, databases, and archives accessible via the internet. Resource sharing. NBC-M (nuclear, biological, chemical & medical): Biochem threat analysis/events (outbreaks). Medical technology and issues related to DOD missions/personnel. Tracking the development of NBC capabilities by country/group. Terrorism: Threat/threat mindsets/tactical intent. Issues related to security and threat issues. International Crime. New developments in terrorism. New technology/weapons systems with CT application. Info. on capability of Special Teams/personnel. Military/Intel Agencies: Force protection. OPSEC. Military plans/policies. Reports on terrorism/counter-terrorism activities. Data on military forces and capabilities (order of battle). Analysis: More analysis by SME's (subject matter experts). Emerging threat analysis. EOD/chemical analysis. Group profies (themes, objectives, etc.) Who are these people? Cultural profiles and key info/customs to know. Technology & Industrial: Hacking/Infowar. Technology/precursor tracking, what is being procured by others. Industrial/technical intelligence on foreign countries- what are they doing? Other: Central/South American, and Caribbean information. Psychological profiles/cultural profiles of groups/personalities. Deception. Stateless Warfare Issues (gangs, 4th generation warfare). State department info. Washington Early Bird news summaries. World hot spot info. Information warfare. Daily news articles on terrorism and related issues State Department country studies State Department terrorist groups/personalities files Emergency News Network (ENN) updates Intelligent Concepts Daily News Summaries Special support tasking News flashes More to be added soon! MEMBERSHIP: Limited to DOD intelligence and counterintelligence personnel, (active, reserve, or retired). Non-DOD intel/CI applicants may request a waiver by demonstrating a need for inclusion, (such as law enforcement intelligence, FBI, etc.) To apply for membership answer the following questions and email to Eric Nelson at: enelson@rohan.sdsu.edu <send the following> NAME/RANK: MILITARY UNIT/ORG: JOB TITLE: EMAIL ADDRESS: REG/RES/RET? NAME OF PERSON WHO REFERRED YOU (MANDATORY): <clip here and send> ------------------------------------------------------------ From: "Robert A. Walton" <waltonr@meade-emh2.army.mil> Subject: DC Area Infowar Event Cc: "Betty G. O'Hearn" <betty@infowar.com> Date: Thu, 14 Nov 1996 17:04:22 +0000 You may wish to post the following notice. The Maryland chapter of Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association will have a luncheon meeting at the Fort Meade Officer's Club on Tuesday, 19 November. The lunch is at 11:45, the program follows at 12:30. The speaker is Brigadier General Jaeger. The topic is "Information Warfare Exercise Lessons Learned." The cost is $10.00 for the luncheon if you register today or Friday, or $12.00 at the door Tuesday. If you are interested in going, please call Vicki Neuman at 301-317-9474 to make a reservation. Thanks Bob Walton ------------------------------------------------------------ To: infowar@infowar.com From: aludwig@pacbell.net Subject: Legal aspects of information warfare My name is Aaron Ludwig and I am a third year law student at Whittier Law School. I am currently writing a law review article about the legal aspects of information warfare. If anyone has any insight or helpful information regarding this topic please contact me at aaronludwig@juno.com or simply reply to this mail. The following are just a few of the questions I hope to analyze and answer: If the U.S. sustains an information-based attack, does this warrant an armed response?(i.e., what constitutes an attack?) What laws are involved in carrying out or defending against information attacks? What laws are involved in the detection of enemy information warriors? Last, but not least, I wonder whether anyone can tell me how to get a hold of the proceedings of any of the information warfare conferences. Keep in mind that I am a highly-leveraged (broke) law student. Thank you. Aaron ------------------------------------------------------------ To: Infowar@infowar.com From: Betty@infowar.com Subject: Defense Science Board Task Force Defense Science Board Task Force on Information Warfare-Defense (IW-D), will be issuing a report in the next few days. Federal Computer Week has an interesting article stating that the report called the threat of an IW attack "significant," adding that the nation's "vulnerabilities are numerous, [and] the countermeasures are extremely limited...." You can read the article at http://www.fcw.com/pubs/fcw/1111/duck.htm. We will be publishing the report as it is made available to us. ------------------------------------------------------------ Date: 11 Nov 1996 20:13:20 CST Subject: Flight Information Resource Sender: owner-g-two@majordomo.netcom.com ENN Info Update 11/11/96 - 20:00CST New Information Resource Assists in Tracking Domestic Flights (ENN) A free service called "Flight Trax" is now available on the World-Wide-Web. This new information resource allows one to track the progress of any domestic airflight within the contigious 48 states. Call up: http://www.amerwxcncpt.com/ with your favorite internet browser. The program will ask you for the flight number, the airline, and the destination airport (using the FAA designated three-letter code). The program will then show you the kind of aricraft used, its flight's path, its location on that path (accurate to within two or three minutes), and its expected time of arrival at its destination. It will not tell you why it may have been delayed. The information is provided by Flyte-Comm of Ft. Lauderdale, FL, which uses data from the FAA to produce the flight estimates. Might be prove useful while waiting for Grandma's flight to come in from Des Moines, or a variety of other uses. Courtesy of: EmergencyNet News Service Emergency Response & Research Institute 6348 N. Milwaukee Ave., #312 Chicago, IL. 60646 (773) 631-3774 - Voice (773) 631-4703 - Fax (773) 631-3467 - Modem/Emergency BBS On-Line http://www.emergency.com - Website enn@emergency.com - E-mail ------------------------------------------------------------ END Infowar Thursday November 14 1996 Volume 01: Number 03 DIRECT REQUESTS to: list@infowar.com with one-line in the BODY, NOT in the subject line. Subscribe infowar TO JOIN GROUP Unsubscribe infowar TO LEAVE GROUP Help infowar TO RECEIVE HELP TO POST A MESSAGE: E-Mail to infowar@infowar.com _____________________________________________________ Infowar.Com Interpact, Inc. Winn Schwartau winn@infowar.com http://www.infowar.com 813-393-6600 Voice 813-393-6361 FAX Sponsor Opportunities/Comments/Help Betty G. O'Hearn Assistant to Winn Schwartau http://www.infowar.com betty@infowar.com 813-367-7277 Voice 813-363-7277 FAX