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Date: 2000-07-25
Die Absenz von Cyberterror
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Die Frage wo denn die gefährlichen Cyberterroristen, für
deren Bekämpfung Millionen Dollar ausgegeben werden,
geblieben sind, stellt dieser Artikel aus dem Industry
Standard, der zur Lektüre im Volltext ausdrücklich empfohlen
wird.
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Millions of tax dollars are spent each year to combat
cyberterrorism. But where are the perpetrators?
On Feb. 4, 1999, FBI director Louis Freeh went before the
Senate Appropriations Committee's Subcommittee on the
Departments of Commerce, Justice and State, and testified
that since the 1993 World Trade Center bombing "no
significant act of foreign-directed terrorism has occurred on
American soil.
"The frequency of terrorist incidents in the United States has
decreased in number," claimed Freeh. In fact, Freeh stated,
the main threat of terrorist activity is abortion-clinic bombings
and right-wing militias who may gain access to weapons of
mass destruction.
Not once in his testimony did Freeh mention any specific
cyber-terrorism threat, planned or carried out.
Freeh then asked for $36.7 million for the Technology and
Cyber Crimes initiative, and another $13 million for the
National Infrastructure Protection Center, or NIPC. How
come?
For that matter, what happened to the "electronic Pearl
Harbor" that Rep. Curt Weldon (R-Pa.) promised us in 1999,
when he said it was not a matter of if but when we would be
the targets of massive Internet-based attacks? Or the "foreign
infiltrators" into U.S. Y2K projects that NIPC head Michael
Vatis warned of in 1999? These potential cyber terrorists,
Vatis claimed, would place dangerous Trojan horses and
malicious code into the systems they were hired to fix. The
infrastructure of the United States, he warned, could be at
risk.
Full Text
http://www.thestandard.com/article/display/0,1151,16974,00.html
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edited by Harkank
published on: 2000-07-25
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