ABCnews/Nightline on Cyber Terror 8-Dec-97

Last night, ABC news once again stroked the fires of fear and raised the
boogieman of "Hackers" destroying the goverment, banks, power plants, ad 
nauseum.  Of course, the main guest was from the US Govt's new trumpeter 
of CyberTerrorizm, "the President's Commission on Critical Infrastructure

Protection".  A full transcript is available.
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Revolution in a Box -- Cyber Terror -- AIR DATE: Monday, Dec. 8, 1997
http://www.abcnews.com/onair/nightline/html_files/transcripts/ntl1208.html

ABC technology correspondent Gina Smith investigates the vulnerability of

our nation's computer systems and what is being done to protect them from

the threat of hackers.

Guest: Jamie Gorelick, co-chair, Advisory Committee of the President's 
Commission on Critical Infrastructure Protection

Jamie Gorelick: Well, there are a number of things we can do. I mean, the

effort that has been started already is one to build a partnership
between 
the government and the private sector to work together to know when 
we're being attacked, to share information, to ensure that we have the 
right research and eventually to be in a position to respond to an attack

with the best efforts we can.

I seem to recall X Four writing:
> Last night, ABC news once again stroked the fires of fear and raised the
> boogieman of "Hackers" destroying the goverment, banks, power plants, ad 
> nauseum.  Of course, the main guest was from the US Govt's new trumpeter 
> of CyberTerrorizm, "the President's Commission on Critical Infrastructure
> Protection".  A full transcript is available.
> http://www.abcnews.com/onair/nightline/html_files/transcripts/ntl1208.html

I recommend that those concerned light a fire under the media's collective
large @sses on the issue concerning the government's history of lofty morals
concerning their citizens and their computers.  I have been epistle-ing all
afternoon.

Rick

R Bradley wrote:
> 
> I seem to recall X Four writing:
> > Last night, ABC news once again stroked the fires of fear and 
> > raised the boogieman of "Hackers" destroying the goverment, banks, 
> > power plants, ad nauseum.  Of course, the main guest was from the 
> > US Govt's new trumpeter of CyberTerrorizm, "the President's 
> > Commission on Critical Infrastructure Protection".  A full 
> > transcript is available.
> > http://www.abcnews.com/onair/nightline/html_files/transcripts/ntl1208.html
> 
> I recommend that those concerned light a fire under the media's 
> collective large @sses on the issue concerning the government's 
> history of lofty morals concerning their citizens and their 
> computers.  I have been epistle-ing all afternoon.
> 
> Rick

Perhaps we should point out to the media (and everyone else who has 
his ears connected to his brain) that the implementation of GAK will 
make the Cyber Terrorism scenario _inevitable_ not just possible.

After all, if the government's thesis is that the entire commercial 
infrastructure could be cracked by hackers, they should readily 
accept, as a fact, that GAK makes the info terrorist's job easier.  
Those terrorists would simply subvert the access mechanisms to GAK
and gain access to _everyone's_ keys.  

-- 
Martin G. Diehl

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