From: Gary Howland <gary@systemics.com>
Date: Wed, 12 Jun 1996 12:30:39 +0800
To: snow <snow@smoke.suba.com>
Subject: Re: Terrorism Hysteria on the Net
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snow wrote:
> 
> On Wed, 5 Jun 1996, John Young wrote:
> 
> > Today's USA has a pair of front page stories:
> > "Feds ready anti-terror cyberteam" and "Terrorism on the Net -- Post-Cold
> > War hysteria or a national threat?"
> > They lay out the nightmares and the valiant TLA-daydreams to out-fund the
> > hackers and out-flummox the public.
> > "You bring me a select group of hackers and within 90 days I'll bring this
> > country to its knees, " says Jim Settle, retired director of the FBI's
> > computer crime squad.
> 
>         Give me 15 well trained soldiers(near special forces level) and I
> can do it in less than 60 days. Without touching a computer.

Give me 10 well trained biological warfare scientists and I'll do it
in 30 ...

Any more bids?  :-)

Gary
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