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Re: Australia: Army Expects 'Suicide Hacker' Attacks
From: "Fergie" <fergdawg () netzero net>
Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2006 21:49:26 GMT
Nah. They drop a computer on your head from a window on the 5th floor as you walk by on the sidewalk below. :-) Also known as "Digital Urban Warfare". :-) - ferg -- Drsolly <drsollyp () drsolly com> wrote: On Thu, 28 Sep 2006, Fergie wrote:
Via ZDnet Australia. [snip] Australia is preparing for cyber-terrorism attacks from "suicide hackers", who will aim to bring down critical infrastructure for a "cause" and not worry about facing 30 years in jail for their actions. So far there have been no major acts of cyber-terrorism -- where hackers take down parts of the critical infrastructure by breaking into power, water, transport or even air traffic control systems -- but the subject has been discussed a great deal. On Tuesday, Colonel Paul Straughair, the director of network centric warfare at the Australian Army and part of the Australian Department of Defence, said he saw "no logical reason" why suicide hackers would not strike in the future.
I boggle at the thought of suicide hackers. What do they do, grope around inside their CRT monitor? -- "Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson Engineering Architecture for the Internet fergdawg(at)netzero.net ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/ _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
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- Australia: Army Expects 'Suicide Hacker' Attacks Fergie (Sep 28)
- Re: Australia: Army Expects 'Suicide Hacker' Attacks Drsolly (Sep 28)
- Re: Australia: Army Expects 'Suicide Hacker' Attacks Rob, grandpa of Ryan, Trevor, Devon & Hannah (Sep 30)
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- Re: Australia: Army Expects 'Suicide Hacker' Attacks Fergie (Sep 28)
- Re: Australia: Army Expects 'Suicide Hacker' Attacks Drsolly (Sep 28)
- Re: Australia: Army Expects 'Suicide Hacker' Attacks Dude VanWinkle (Sep 28)
- Re: Australia: Army Expects 'Suicide Hacker' Attacks Oliver Schneider (Sep 29)
- Re: Australia: Army Expects 'Suicide Hacker' Attacks Rob, grandpa of Ryan, Trevor, Devon & Hannah (Sep 30)
- Re: Australia: Army Expects 'Suicide Hacker' Attacks Drsolly (Sep 28)
- Re: Australia: Army Expects 'Suicide Hacker' Attacks Fergie (Sep 28)
- Re: Australia: Army Expects 'Suicide Hacker' Attacks Les Bell (Sep 28)
- Re: Australia: Army Expects 'Suicide Hacker' Attacks Rob, grandpa of Ryan, Trevor, Devon & Hannah (Sep 30)
- Re: Australia: Army Expects 'Suicide Hacker' Attacks Valdis . Kletnieks (Sep 30)
- Re: Australia: Army Expects 'Suicide Hacker' Attacks Rob, grandpa of Ryan, Trevor, Devon & Hannah (Sep 30)
- Re: Australia: Army Expects 'Suicide Hacker' Attacks Drsolly (Sep 28)