From: Steven Levy <steven@echonyc.com>
Date: Wed, 5 Jun 1996 13:28:52 +0800
To: Dan Haskovec <dhaskove@ucsd.edu>
Subject: Re: Class III InfoWar: TST Article
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If it's a myth, it's quite an elaborate one. On Saturday night I was 
interviewed by the BBC about this.  The producer read the entire article 
to me, telling me in was on the front page of the Times. (My comments 
were not about the specific story, but the underlying security issues.) I 
don't think he was making it up.

Maybe the London Times isn't on Nexus.

Steven

On Tue, 4 Jun 1996, Dan Haskovec wrote:

> Here's the reply I got from a friend that I forwarded it to....
> 
> 
>      and the verdict is... NetMYTH!  I checked the cite in the article on 
>      cyberterrorism... no such article ran on 6/2/96 in the Times 
>      (London)... nor, in fact, in any newspaper available on Nexis... 
>      just thought I would let you know...
> 
>      
> 
> On Sun, 2 Jun 1996, John Young wrote:
> 
> > This is the article Winn Schwartau cited to last night: 
> >  
> > ---------- 
> >  
> >  
> >    The Sunday Times (London), June 2, 1996, pp. 1, 24. 
> >  
> >  
> >    City surrenders to L400m gangs [Insight column] 
> >  
> >  
> >    City of London financial institutions have paid huge sums 
> >    to international gangs of sophisticated "cyber terrorists" 
> >    who have amassed up to L400m worldwide by threatening to 
> >    wipe out computer systems. 
> [...]
>