[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

          

Thank you, Ross, for taking up the issue. But now for the rest of the
question... In you view, is there no real cyber-terrorism today? And
what would we really call cyber terrorism - or other terrorism?

Since I have asked, I will also respond - but only briefly for now.

I think that the bombing of information infrastructures with the goal of
inducing fear in the general public would constitute cyber-terrorism.

In general, I would count anything as cyber-terrorism if it was intended
to induce fear in the citizenry and was directed at or through some set
of information systems.

I agree that the posted article did not include much in this realm, and
that, in essence, terrorism is not where the hot cyberwar is today or
will be in the future.

I think that folks in the US government and military-industrial complex
uses the term terrorism far too easily and does so as a means to an
end... a financial end.

That should be enough to engage some comment, so I'll put it away for
now and continue with my work...

FC