Return-Path: <sentto-279987-3148-1003501804-fc=all.net@returns.onelist.com> Delivered-To: fc@all.net Received: from 204.181.12.215 [204.181.12.215] by localhost with POP3 (fetchmail-5.7.4) for fc@localhost (single-drop); Fri, 19 Oct 2001 07:31:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 4532 invoked by uid 510); 19 Oct 2001 14:29:41 -0000 Received: from n30.groups.yahoo.com (216.115.96.80) by 204.181.12.215 with SMTP; 19 Oct 2001 14:29:41 -0000 X-eGroups-Return: sentto-279987-3148-1003501804-fc=all.net@returns.onelist.com Received: from [10.1.1.223] by n30.groups.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 19 Oct 2001 14:30:04 -0000 X-Sender: fc@red.all.net X-Apparently-To: iwar@onelist.com Received: (EGP: mail-8_0_0_1); 19 Oct 2001 14:30:04 -0000 Received: (qmail 42351 invoked from network); 19 Oct 2001 14:30:03 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.26) by 10.1.1.223 with QMQP; 19 Oct 2001 14:30:02 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO red.all.net) (65.0.156.78) by mta1 with SMTP; 19 Oct 2001 14:30:02 -0000 Received: (from fc@localhost) by red.all.net (8.11.2/8.11.2) id f9JEU4n10970 for iwar@onelist.com; Fri, 19 Oct 2001 07:30:04 -0700 Message-Id: <200110191430.f9JEU4n10970@red.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 PL3] 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: Fri, 19 Oct 2001 07:30:04 -0700 (PDT) Reply-To: iwar@yahoogroups.com Subject: [iwar] [fc:Y2K.prep.helped.terror.response] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Y2K prep helped terror response By Judi Hasson, Federal Computer Week, 10/19/2001 <a href="http://www.fcw.com/fcw/articles/2001/1015/web-y2k-10-19-01.asp">http://www.fcw.com/fcw/articles/2001/1015/web-y2k-10-19-01.asp> If the federal government had not upgraded its critical systems for the Year 2000, the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11 could have been far worse, Sen. Robert Bennett (R-Utah) told a gathering of experts Oct. 18. Bennett said the work done to eliminate Year 2000 date-change bugs and upgrade computer systems helped make rescue efforts swift after the worst terrorist attacks in U.S. history. "If we had not done what we did for Y2K, we would not have been capable of responding [Sept. 11]," Bennett said at a seminar on strengthening homeland cyberdefense. For example, he said, while working to eradicate the millennium bug, "We found out that if you had a 386 [computer] at the Defense Department, you had a hot item." The federal government dismantled its Year 2000 command center in Washington, D.C., after Jan. 1, 2000, but New York City kept its in place. Officials were able to tap its resources when two passenger jets hit the World Trade Center, Bennett told a briefing of the Information Technology Association of America and the Center for Strategic and International Studies. When a bomb exploded in the garage beneath the World Trade Center in 1993, it "didn't kill enough people," Bennett said, and that "lulled us" into thinking it wouldn't happen again. Now, he said, it's important to think strategically and share information among private companies and government. Bennett is sponsoring the Critical Infrastructure Information Security Act that would enable companies to share information with the government and not be subject to disclosure under the Freedom of Information Act. ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ---------------------~--> Get your FREE VeriSign guide to security solutions for your web site: encrypting transactions, securing intranets, and more! http://us.click.yahoo.com/UnN2wB/m5_CAA/yigFAA/kgFolB/TM ---------------------------------------------------------------------~-> ------------------ http://all.net/ Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
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