[52243] in Cypherpunks
Re: InfoWarCon V 1996: Call For Papers
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (jim bell)
Sun Mar 17 02:04:41 1996
Date: Sat, 16 Mar 1996 22:26:53 -0800
To: winn@Infowar.Com, abacard@well.sf.ca.us
From: jim bell <jimbell@pacifier.com>
Cc: cypherpunks@toad.com
At 11:01 PM 3/16/96 -0500, winn@Infowar.Com wrote:
> C A L L F O R P A P E R S
>
> InfoWarCon 5, 1996
> Fifth International Information Warfare Conference
> "Dominating the Battlefields of Business and War"
> September 5-6, 1996
> Washington, DC
>Sponsored by:
> Winn Schwartau, Interpact, Inc.
> National Computer Security Association
> Robert Steele, Open Source Solutions, Inc.
>
>Information Warfare represents a global challenge that faces all late-industrial
>and information age nation states. It also represents the easiest and cheapest
>way for less developed nation-states and religious or political movements to
>anonymously and grievously attack major nations and international corporations.
>
>This Fifth International Conference on Information Warfare is an unclassified,
>open source conference, and will examine US and global perspectives on all three
>classes of Information Warfare:
I'm wondering if I should bother re-writing my "Assassination Politics"
essay into the form of a paper and submitting it to these people. While it
might nominally be considered right down their alley, from a subject
standpoint, even a cursory look at the location (Washington, DC) and the
invited people (large companies and military) suggest that my ideas would be
just about as welcome as a yarmulke at a Nazi Party convention.
I'm not aware of the agenda (hidden or otherwise) of the sponsors, so I don't know whether I should even bother. Many people aren't particularly appreciative of being "one-upped" (not to mention made obsolete) so it's not clear that they'd give me the time of day.
Any ideas as to their receptiveness?
Jim Bell
jimbell@pacifier.com
