Re: Cyber terrorism not real: Gartner

[InfoSec News <isn () c4i org>]

Forwarded from: Fredrich P. Maney <maney () maney org>

InfoSec News wrote:

> http://www.zdnet.com.au/newstech/security/story/0,2000048600,20280859,00.htm
>
> By Patrick Gray
> ZDNet Australia
> 11 November 2003
>     
> Gartner's information security and risk research director has 
> dismissed cyber-terrorism as a "theory".  
>
> The comments came during a media round-table session at the Gartner 
> Symposium and IT Expo, which began today in Sydney. The director, Rich 
> Mogull, told journalists that despite the incidence of high profile 
> digital attacks, cyber terrorism is a phenomenon that has never 
> occurred. 
>
> "The goal of terrorism is to change society through the use of force 
> or violence, resulting in fear," he explained. "I want to put this 
> cyber terrorism thing to rest. It's a theory, it's not a fact." 

That's just bunk.

The goal of terrorism is to bring attention to their cause, thereby
causing some people to change their own personal beliefs and
convictions to those of the terrorists and to eventually bring about
societal change because of that shift in mores. The only reason that
force, violence and fear are the main (or at least the most often
observed) tools of terrorists is they are cheaper, quicker and more
effective than the peaceful, non-violence of Civil Disobedience and
the Legal System.

fpsm
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Fredrich Patterson Sebastian Maney
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    "The man who trades freedom for security does not deserve nor will
    he ever receive either." - Benjamin Franklin



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