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"Information Technology for Counterterrorism: Immediate Actions and Future Possibilities",
From: Dave Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Sat, 15 Mar 2003 19:17:00 -0500
------ Forwarded Message From: "Steven M. Bellovin" <smb () research att com> Date: Sat, 15 Mar 2003 17:57:20 -0500 To: dave () farber net Subject: Re: [IP] Govt Comp.News - Assessing "cyberterror" - couldn't find any!
About a year ago, I started looking for examples of cyber-terrorism, where hackers had shut down critical infrastuctures. I was surprised to discover that I couldn't find any, so I began to look more closely at the hypothetical scenarios involving cyber war. Most of them turned out to be implausible from a military or national security perspective.
Let me direct folks to a new National Academies report, "Information Technology for Counterterrorism: Immediate Actions and Future Possibilities", http://www7.nationalacademies.org/cstb/pub_counterterrorism.html (It's an expanded version of the IT chapter of "Information Technology for Counterterrorism: Immediate Actions and Future Possibilities".) We concluded that a purely cyber, catastrophic terror incident was improbable. ------ End of Forwarded Message ------------------------------------- You are subscribed as interesting-people () lists elistx com To manage your subscription, go to http://v2.listbox.com/member/?listname=ip Archives at: http://www.interesting-people.org/archives/interesting-people/
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