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Cyberstalking Hype
From: William Knowles <wk () C4I ORG>
Date: Sun, 28 May 2000 03:32:30 -0500
http://www.zdnet.com/intweek/stories/columns/0,4164,2577187,00.html By Lewis Z. Koch Special To Inter@ctive Week May 25, 2000 3:13 PM PT 'Common sense and some growing anecdotal evidence would tell you that cyberstalking is a growing problem," said Associate Deputy Attorney General John Bentivoglio, who handles cybercrime and cyberstalking issues at the Department of Justice. That's when alarm bells went off in my head. More than three decades ago, on my third day as a cub reporter at Chicago's City News Bureau, a hulking, menacing, slovenly city editor named Arnold Dornfeld lumbered up to me and asked, "Does your mother love ya, chum?" "Yes," I responded eagerly. "How d'ya know?" I coughed nervously and mumbled, "Of course she does." "Call her and check." I looked for a smile on his face. There was none. Then he leaned in and said, "Call her or you're fired." I quickly dialed my mother, asked the question, got a positive reply, hung up and looked at Dornfeld. "She said she loves me." Dornfeld looked deep into my eyes and said, without a shred of humor, "Now you know." Would that Bentivoglio had deigned to "call and check." Is cyberstalking a plague, an international menace or a rare crime? [...] *-------------------------------------------------* "Communications without intelligence is noise; Intelligence without communications is irrelevant." Gen. Alfred. M. Gray, USMC --------------------------------------------------- C4I Secure Solutions http://www.c4i.org *-------------------------------------------------* ISN is sponsored by SecurityFocus.com --- To unsubscribe email LISTSERV () SecurityFocus com with a message body of "SIGNOFF ISN".
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