Re: [iwar] interesting piece

From: Tony Bartoletti (azb@llnl.gov)
Date: 2001-05-03 15:12:30


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Date: Thu, 03 May 2001 15:12:30 -0700
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Subject: Re: [iwar] interesting piece
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At 07:50 AM 5/3/01 -0700, you wrote:
>by  James Adams

[snip]

>U.S. military leaders increasingly recognize that losing information
>battles will undermine the country's ability to fight any battles at all.
>Missile defense, for example, will not be worth the billions it will cost
>if digital attacks undermine its software or infrastructure. And opponents
>of missile defense could handicap the system at the development stage by
>attacking the technology at its source -- breaking into the computer
>networks of the corporations that design the system and making slight
>modifications that ensure huge costs and long delays.

Hmmm.  So, if a full-scale missile defense program is initiated, and
it incurs huge costs and long delays (a virtual certainty for a wide
variety of reasons,) then we can probably point to those "opponents of
missile defense" for having hacked into and sabotaged the source codes.

Right.

___tony___


Tony Bartoletti 925-422-3881 <azb@llnl.gov>
Information Operations, Warfare and Assurance Center
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Livermore, CA 94551-9900





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