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Govt Comp.News - Assessing "cyberterror" - couldn't find any!
From: Dave Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Sat, 15 Mar 2003 13:43:25 -0500
------ Forwarded Message From: Jim Warren <jwarren () well com> Date: Sat, 15 Mar 2003 10:23:15 -0800 To: Dave Farber <dave () farber net>, Declan McCullagh <declan () well com> Subject: fwd: Govt Comp.News - Assessing "cyberterror" - couldn't find any! [I've long questioned the widespread abuse of the highly provocative term, "terrorism," by applying it to computer crime. Always seemed like over-hyping ... or just flat-out fear-mongering. Perhaps we'll soon hear of terrorist speeders and terrorist jay-walkers. --jim] Interview in Government Computer News:
http://gcn.com/forum/qna_forum/21253-2.html Question and Answer Lloyd Batzler - GCN moderator: Welcome to our Forum with Dr. James A. Lewis, author of a report on the risks of cyberterrorism published by the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington. To start, Dr. Lewis, would you offer some background: What prompted this report, its timing and -- briefly -- what kind of feedback have you received since its release in December? James A. Lewis: I've been working on the issue of how to build secure public networks for about 7 years. I started out as a military analyst and I wanted to put the cyber terror/cyber war issue in a larger strategic context. About a year ago, I started looking for examples of cyber-terrorism, where hackers had shut down critical infrastuctures. I was surprised to discover that I couldn't find any, so I began to look more closely at the hypothetical scenarios involving cyber war. Most of them turned out to be implausible from a military or national security perspective. Hence the report. Feedback has been very positive, but it will take a while to persuade everyone. We still need to go through a debate over the risks of cyberterror. [...]
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