The first cyberterrorism?

[David Farber <farber () tmail com>]

-----Original Message-----
From: Dave Crocker <dcrocker () brandenburg com>
To: farber () tmail com
CC: ip () v2 listbox com
Subject: The first cyberterrorism?
Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2003 11:25:25 -0800

Dave,

Given the recent comments that cyberterrorism is theoretical, rather 
than
having yet been demonstrated as a problem, folks might be interested in 
this
article from the San Francisco Chronicle:

<http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2003/01/12/MN125083.DTL>

>  Iraq shuts down Net access to block U.S. e-mail campaign
>  Message urged  defections, defying Hussein's orders
>
>  Robert Collier, Chronicle Staff Writer Sunday, January 12, 2003
>
>  Baghdad -- Apparently in response to a blanket e-mail campaign by the 
> U.S.
>  military urging dissent and defections, the Iraqi government shut down 
> --
>  at least temporarily -- all Internet access and the country's two 
> e-mail
>  servers.

I suppose that, formally, such an act of aggression by a state is 
classed as
warfare, rather than terrorism.

However it is directed at the civilian population, and it is crippling 
their
infrastructure, so the technical aspects of cyberterrorism are probably 
the
same.

d/
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 Dave <mailto:dcrocker () brandenburg com>
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-- Dave

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