Re: [iwar] re: e-bombs

From: Fred Cohen (fc@all.net)
Date: 2002-01-08 08:48:14


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Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2002 08:48:14 -0800 (PST)
Subject: Re: [iwar] re: e-bombs
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Per the message sent by David Alexander:

> >E-BOMB
> >In the blink of an eye, electromagnetic bombs could throw civilization 
> >back >200 years. And terrorists can build them for $400. BY JIM WILSON

> People write these sensationalist articles with no understanding of the
> physics. The field strength decay follows the inverse cube law. Now figure
> how big an impulse the bomb has to generate to give a strong enough field to
> do damage at 50 metres.

I hope that all of the list members were well aware of this long ago. 
My piont in posting it was to induce discussion of the perception
management issues being foisted on the public in the name of
counterterrorism and the way information warfare involves such 'attacks'
on the truth for political, economic, or other advantage.

FC

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