[66795] in Cypherpunks
Re: Internet 'terrorism' newsclips [CYPHER, but news]
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steve Schear)
Sun Sep 29 17:40:45 1996
Date: Sun, 29 Sep 1996 14:23:26 -0700
To: Donald Weightman <dweightman@radix.net>
From: azur@netcom.com (Steve Schear)
Cc: cypherpunks@toad.com
>>There were more than 250,000 attacks on Department of Defense computers last
>>year, and 65% were successful. Little is known about who launched them,
>why, or
>>what they found. In a recent test, Defense Department "red teams" admit to
>>intentionally hacking into 18,200 systems, with only 5% of the attacks
>>detected; only 27% of those attacks were reported.
>
>Wonder if the timing of these stories has anything to do with the end of
>term legislative push on wiretapping.
Quite possibly. The message from this article is clear. Step up
investigation and prosecution of illegal government Net activities :-)
-- Steve
