[iwar] Historical posting
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Date: Mon, Jan 1, 1999
From: Fred Cohen
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Subject: [iwar] Historical posting
Pentagon labels computer morphing a war crime
A Defense Department study on how international law could be
applied to the military's use of information operations (IO)
and computer network attack concludes that though there are
no show stoppers preventing the Department's use of such
tactics in war, communicating false computer-generated images
would be a war crime.
http://www.fcw.com/pubs/fcw/1999/1108/web-dod-11-12-99.html
Pentagon hit by 'World Wide Wait'
The Defense Department's exploding use of the Internet has put
such a squeeze on network bandwidth that it threatens new
strategies to use information technology systems to manage
the Pentagon's business and fight wars.
http://www.fcw.com/pubs/fcw/1999/1115/fcw-newswait-11-15-99.html
This is just between us (and the spies)
The US National Security Agency has patented a new technology for
monitoring millions of telephone calls, so watch out, it's now even
easier for the spooks to eavesdrop on your conversations
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/Digital/Features/spies151199.shtml
Thieves steal Egypt secrets... on floppy
Top-secret oil, gas, uranium reserves information put onto
disks for easy removal. Egyptian police are investigating
a highly serious, albeit low-tech, computer crime involving
the theft of floppy disks containing highly sensitive
information on the country's national resources from
laboratories at Cairo University.
http://www.zdnet.co.uk/news/1999/45/ns-11462.html
FC