[iwar] Historical posting
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Date: Mon, Jan 1, 1999
From: Fred Cohen
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Subject: [iwar] Historical posting
http://www.washtimes.com/news/news3.html
Pentagon's top intelligence official said yesterday that China's
announced plans to conduct "Internet warfare" poses a future threat to
U.S. military dominance on the battlefield. "We are clearly interested
and concerned about this whole idea of information attack," Vice Adm.
Thomas Wilson, the new director of the Defense Intelligence Agency
(DIA), said in an interview.
The three-star admiral was commenting on a report in China's official
military newspaper, first disclosed in yesterday's editions of The
Washington Times, that the People's Liberation Army (PLA) is gearing up
for wartime computer attacks on networks and the Internet that
facilitate everything from finance to military activities.
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http://news.excite.com/news/u/991117/18/tech-cyberterrorism
Industry, feds play at cyberterror
Updated 6:27 PM ET November 17, 1999
By PAMELA HESS
WASHINGTON, Nov. 17 (UPI) It was an exercise that might be called,
"When good wonks turn bad."
On Wednesday in Washington, D.C., a group of about 50 government policy
workers and industry executives were recast as cyberterrorists in a
simulated war game, bent on destroying an IRS-like organization through
the use of laptop computers alone.
By the end of the two-hour simulation, they had fomented a grassroots
rebellion, forced the resignation of a senator and unhinged a powerful
government agency.
The exercise part of a two-day conference on cyberterrorism sponsored by
Jane's, the publisher of military guides marks the first time since the
game was invented three years ago that the terrorists actually won, said
Barry, the game's creator and workshop leader. For "personal safety
reasons" he asked that his full name not be used.
"This is the sickest, most twisted bunch I've ever worked with," said
Barry, pleased.
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