[iwar] Historical posting


From: Fred Cohen
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Date: Mon, Jan 1, 1999
From: Fred Cohen 
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Subject: [iwar] Historical posting

          


            
 This very issue is one that has had me deeply concerned for the last few years.
People think that since the Cold War is "officially over" that nothing has
stepped to replace it.  The fact is all those former KGB, Stazi, and other such
characters still have to earn a living - not to mention that other countries
bear us ill [some of whom have supplied the contractors mentioned in this
clipping].

The great philosophical war of Democracy vs. Communism is not what it used to
be, but religious fanaticism, nationalistic drives, old grudges, and other
things serve as a sufficient basis for attacking another person or country.
Many folks elsewhere truly resent the US being the BMOC merely on principle.
That's enough for them.

I think the one thing that is certain is that the game has yet to play itself
out, and we will see some of the events imagined come to pass.  We are not the
only ones to have read Machiavelli and applied his methods of conquest,
bloodless and otherwise.

Ross A. Leo, CISSP, CBCP
Project Manager, IT Security & DR/BCP




Fred Cohen fc@a... on 09.24.99 13:23:58

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From: Fred Cohen fc@a...

On Wednesday the Senate issued a report noting that "The very effort to
fix Y2K problems has left the nation's businesses and federal government
wide open to a broad spectrum of international attacks on its computer
systems.  The government and the private sector hired contractors --
many of them from outside the United States -- to address the
'millennium bug' without regard for domestic and financial security.
That has left US computer networks vulnerable to maneuvers that could
harm the nation's economy and its leading companies, says the report.
In fact, some security firms told a Senate Committee of finding hidden
'trap doors' left behind by contractors, and there is no way to know if
they were left for benign or malicious reasons."

http://cnn.com/TECH/computing/9909/22/cyberterror.y2k/index.html

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