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Re: National Infrastructure Protection Center


From: woods () most weird com (Greg A. Woods)
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1998 23:44:36 -0500 (EST)

[ On Tue, November 17, 1998 at 14:29:25 (-0500), David Lesher wrote: ]
Subject: Re: National Infrastructure Protection Center

Unnamed Administration sources reported that Jeremy Porter said:

Despite the fact that we've assisted the local office on a number
of occasions (tracing forged email, etc.), there isn't any real
interested unless you have large amounts of damage, i.e. $100,000+.

Same thing seems to be true here in Canada w.r.t. the ability of an
incident to capture the attention of the RCMP, though of course there
are always "exceptions".

And that fact [that I know to be true...] ought to be of interest to
any one of a number of print journalists.

Hmmm....  I don't know.  It's all about risk assesment....  The RCMP or
FBI or whomever don't want to know about kids stealing candy down at the
local corner store.  Perhaps similar responses are necessary (eg. give a
good talking to the guardians or other responsible parties associated
with the perpetrators of such inconsequential attacks).  Unfortunately
due to the international nature of the Internet I'm not sure such peer
pressure tactics will work quite so well with parents or whomever,
assuming you can even track them down.

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