[91663] in Cypherpunks
Re: ABCnews/Nightline on Cyber Terror 8-Dec-97
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (R Bradley)
Tue Dec 9 18:29:46 1997
From: rick@rentec.com (R Bradley)
To: x4@juno.com (X Four)
Date: Tue, 9 Dec 97 13:37:00 PST
Cc: pgp-users@joshua.rivertown.net, coderpunks@toad.com,
cypherpunks@cyberpass.net, remailer-politics@server1.efga.org
In-Reply-To: <19971209.140719.6358.1.x4@juno.com> from "X Four" at Dec 9, 97 02:07:17 pm
Reply-To: rick@rentec.com (R Bradley)
I seem to recall X Four writing:
> Last night, ABC news once again stroked the fires of fear and raised the
> boogieman of "Hackers" destroying the goverment, banks, power plants, ad
> nauseum. Of course, the main guest was from the US Govt's new trumpeter
> of CyberTerrorizm, "the President's Commission on Critical Infrastructure
> Protection". A full transcript is available.
> http://www.abcnews.com/onair/nightline/html_files/transcripts/ntl1208.html
I recommend that those concerned light a fire under the media's collective
large @sses on the issue concerning the government's history of lofty morals
concerning their citizens and their computers. I have been epistle-ing all
afternoon.
Rick
