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Congress tackles "cyber menace"
Resolution declares cyberterrorists real, calls for new laws to
prosecute them. By Kevin Poulsen February 9, 2001 10:11 AM PT
Declaring "cyberterrorism" a growing threat to national security,
congressmen James Saxton (R-NJ) and Saxby Chambliss (R-GA) introduced
legislation this week calling for a revised legal framework for
prosecuting terrorist hackers, and renewed public-private sector
cooperation in combating the "cyber menace."
House concurrent resolution twenty-two declares cyberterrorism to be "an
emerging threat to the national security of the United States which has
the potentiality to cause great harm to the Nation's critical electronic
infrastructure."
Saxton and Chambliss call for federal law enforcement and intelligence
agencies to conduct a new study of cyberterrorists, defined as
computer-savvy terrorist groups determined to crack American computer
networks and sabotage critical infrastructures like banking and finance,
energy production and distribution, transportation, and national
defense.
If passed, the resolution would not put new laws on the books, but would
establish a largely symbolic "sense of Congress" that cyberterrorists
are real, and that new laws are needed to punish them.
But belief that terrorists are turning to hacking is not universally
held, even among relatively hawkish insiders. Speaking at a security
conference last year, then-White House counter-terrorism czar Richard
Clarke said he believed that foreign governments could inflict grave
damage on U.S. infrastructures electronically, but that terrorist
groups still prefer bombs to modems.
"I don't know what a cyberterrorist is," Clarke said. "We have not
found a terrorist group engaged in computer attacks on the United
States. We haven't even found one preparing for computer attacks on the
United States."
The legislation comes amid renewed interest in hi-tech terrorism,
sparked by a USA Today report Tuesday that mideast extremist Osama bin
Laden uses email and encryption in planning terrorist attacks.
The preamble of the resolution also supports continued funding for the
Clinton administration's cyber security programs, including the FBI's
National Infrastructure Protection Center (NIPC), and the Commerce
Department's Critical Infrastructure Assurance Office, and it endorses
Clinton's 2000 "National Plan for Information Systems Protection."
An identical resolution stalled in committee last year.
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