Re: military strike possible?

["Chris Boyd (Admin)" <jesus () leviathan irelands-web ie>]

On Wed, 29 Oct 2003, J Kallberg wrote:

Are you talking about the US?



> I have been waiting for awhile for some rogue Internet nations.
> Nations that become safe heavens for everything we want to prevent.
> I thought some side line dictators out there would see Internet as a 
> revenue stream as they funnel narcotics, money laundering, arms sales, 
> terrorist propaganda, etc. 
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> Maybe we have too few Noriegas around...
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> And if they should up, can the Western World just hook off a nation
> from the Internet like cutting oil supply?
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> JK
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> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Raymer, Dan" <DRaymer () webmd net>
> To: "'Meritt James'" <meritt_james () bah com>; <security-basics () securityfocus com>
> Sent: Tuesday, October 28, 2003 4:08 PM
> Subject: RE: military strike possible?
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> considering that intelligence can't even tell a Chinese embassy from a
> warehouse or where senior leadership is having a meeting, how do they expect
> to hit a bunch of teenage script kiddies (or heavens forbid, REAL crackers)
> coordinating an attack via IRC?
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Meritt James [mailto:meritt_james () bah com]
> Sent: Tuesday, October 28, 2003 11:11 AM
> To: 'security-basics () securityfocus com'
> Subject: military strike possible?
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> Going from the premptive strike philosophy demonstrated in Mideastern
> countries, what are your thoughts on a military strike against (as yet
> unseen) "cyberterrorists" a'la
> http://www.msnbc.com/news/985295.asp?0si=- if there were extranational
> agents tampering with identified components of the infrastructure to
> the extent that they were risking human life?


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