[67257] in Cypherpunks
Re: ADJ_ust
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Adamsc)
Fri Oct 4 06:21:24 1996
From: Adamsc@io-online.com (Adamsc)
To: "cypherpunks@toad.com" <cypherpunks@toad.com>,
"Timothy C. May" <tcmay@got.net>
Date: Wed, 02 Oct 96 23:41:52 -0700
Reply-To: "Chris Adams" <adamsc@io-online.com>
On Tue, 1 Oct 1996 10:26:12 -0800, Timothy C. May wrote:
>Personally, I think there's a lot of hype about this whole "infowar" thing.
>Sure, security measures and vulnerabilities always need to be looked at,
>but a lot of the rhetoric is being driven by journalists looking for lead
>stories.
This is certainly the case with 99% of the computer industry press!
I certainly have no problem believing that a group of well-supplied
professionals could, with enough time and [political] support, take down a
single target. For instance, if the CIA,FBI and NSA wanted to hose the 1st
Bank of China, I have a feeling that they would - eventually. I have strong
doubts that someone would come up with a non-nuke that could destroy stuff
indiscriminately within a useably large area.
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