[109024] in Cypherpunks
RE: CDR: Pentagon under attack
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill Stewart)
Tue Mar 9 02:20:08 1999
Date: Mon, 08 Mar 1999 09:36:34 -0800
To: "Andrew M. Benhase" <abenhase@bigplanet.com>,
chatski carl <chatski@gl.umbc.edu>
From: Bill Stewart <bill.stewart@pobox.com>
Cc: <cypherpunks@toad.com>
In-Reply-To: <001501be685e$4d6c24a0$f30c00c7@meson.patrick.mednet.af.mil
>
Reply-To: Bill Stewart <bill.stewart@pobox.com>
Wait - what am I doing agreeing with Chatski Carl on anything? :-)
There are _always_ people pinging the Pentagon, whether they're
teenage script kiddies or foreign spies, and the military
likes to pretend that this is 250000 break-in attempts per year.
It's interesting timing to compare this with the Marine invasion training
in Emeryville and Monterey California that's been in the press,
the recent big stories of three-year-ago Chinese Nuclear Spies at Los Alamos,
and Cong.Anna Eshoo's comments that the right wing Republicans
are going to start lots of PR hype about China after the impeachment flap
settles down a bit, because it's the only source of Commies or other
threats big enough to justify propping up the military-industrial complex.
Chatski Carl wrote:
> On the Contrary, I think this is not even going on, but a serious military
> disinformation ploy to create an environment for even more repression in
> cyberland and elsewhere.
At 12:49 AM 3/7/99 -0500, Andrew M. Benhase wrote:
>Your comments here are right on... take it from someone who does alot of
>security work for the DOD. BTW- The people in military command and various
>intelligence agencies love this hacker hype. Nothing gets compromised
>(because of many of the reasons listed below) but they get increased budgets
>for more people and loads more equipment.
>
>I would even go out on a limb and state that some the hype is even
>self-generated straight down the Pentagon. The DOD IT budget must be getting
>squeezed again in Congress...
Thanks!
Bill
Bill Stewart, bill.stewart@pobox.com
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