Return-Path: <sentto-279987-3051-1003367002-fc=all.net@returns.onelist.com> Delivered-To: fc@all.net Received: from 204.181.12.215 by localhost with POP3 (fetchmail-5.1.0) for fc@localhost (single-drop); Wed, 17 Oct 2001 18:04:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 19635 invoked by uid 510); 18 Oct 2001 01:03:02 -0000 Received: from n13.groups.yahoo.com (216.115.96.63) by 204.181.12.215 with SMTP; 18 Oct 2001 01:03:02 -0000 X-eGroups-Return: sentto-279987-3051-1003367002-fc=all.net@returns.onelist.com Received: from [10.1.1.221] by n13.groups.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 18 Oct 2001 01:02:31 -0000 X-Sender: fc@big.all.net X-Apparently-To: iwar@onelist.com Received: (EGP: mail-8_0_0_1); 18 Oct 2001 01:03:21 -0000 Received: (qmail 56374 invoked from network); 18 Oct 2001 01:03:21 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.26) by 10.1.1.221 with QMQP; 18 Oct 2001 01:03:21 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO big.all.net) (65.0.156.78) by mta1 with SMTP; 18 Oct 2001 01:03:21 -0000 Received: (from fc@localhost) by big.all.net (8.9.3/8.7.3) id SAA04675 for iwar@onelist.com; Wed, 17 Oct 2001 18:03:21 -0700 Message-Id: <200110180103.SAA04675@big.all.net> To: iwar@onelist.com (Information Warfare Mailing List) Organization: I'm not allowed to say X-Mailer: don't even ask X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL1] From: Fred Cohen <fc@all.net> X-Yahoo-Profile: fcallnet Mailing-List: list iwar@yahoogroups.com; contact iwar-owner@yahoogroups.com Delivered-To: mailing list iwar@yahoogroups.com Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:iwar-unsubscribe@yahoogroups.com> Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2001 18:03:21 -0700 (PDT) Reply-To: iwar@yahoogroups.com Subject: [iwar] The Carriers Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mission: Impossible - Episode 13: The Carriers Deep behind the Iron Curtain, an insidious special training center is built to resemble a typical American small town. Enemy agents are being taught the American way so they can infiltrate and undermine our population. The IMF team, disguised as recruits, enters the center - only to discover the plan to destroy the US is already underway! The plan is to infect the folks with a deadly disease (not Smallpox at that time because US citizens were largely immune) by having the carriers distribute themselves around the nation - not even knowing they were infected. By the time the disease spreads widely, the original carriers are dead and cannot be traced back to the source. In the meanwhile, the US has massive population deaths and utter failure of the public health system. Today, this can be done - may already be underway - with smallpox - a weaponized disease that nobody left in the US (to speak of) is immune to any longer. The public health plan is to 'vaccinate around the incident' so that enough people near the folks who have it will be protected to prevent epidemics. The problem is that this won't work against the plan proposed in Mission Impossible because we don't have enough vaccines, because widespread travel makes this sort of thing highly ineffective, and because there are other agents with similar potential impacts (including influenza) that we cannot protect against as effectively as even this. The enemies of the US, presumably, already have the agents in place to start the massive biological attack. In the case of Smallpox, the solution is to build enough vaccines for the whole population and immunize everyone. I did it when I was a kid and so should everyone in the US today. There is no reason not to, and we can and should manufacture enough vaccines ASAP to do the job, while delivering the present vaccines to the higher population areas most vulnerable people and most likely vector for spread - school aged children - who tend to have the highest exposure and are most threatened over their life. Part 2 - if it happens - what do we really do. The answer is an interesting proposal. Replace transportation with communication. In other words, use the Internet and information infrastructure far more than we do today. Buy groceries this way and have them delivered in a manner that eliminates the need for physical contact or proximity. Eliminate the massive use of air transport in favor of a better ground system (i.e., trains, trucks, cars), and go to video-conferencing instead of the vast majority of business meetings. Don't buy it. Here's a bet. If an epidemic hits, this will be the dominant mode of operation for survivors and it will be instrumental in countering the epidemic spread of disease. Information warfare - defensive. FC ------------------------ Yahoo! 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