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[snow <snow@smoke.suba.com>]

> Citing a specific example, the DSB report said one building in Savannah, 
Ga., (a Bell South switching facility, FCW learned) houses not only a
> vital communications hub but information technology systems supporting 
key electric power and transportation companies. Because Savannah
> serves as a vital port of embarkation for Army troops based in that area, 
an IW attack against that one building would "make it impossible to
> deploy military forces at the pace specified in operations plans." 

     Then again so would a decent breifcase bomb. 
 
> These recommendations included a controversial call for the Pentagon to have 
the legal power to protect nongovernmental portions of the
                   ^^^^^^^

    Someone mispelled "Take Over". 

> infrastructure in the name of "the common defense." To defend DOD and i
critical nongovernmental systems against IW, the report recommends
> new legal authority that will allow "DOD, law enforcement and intelligence 
agencies to conduct efficient, coordinated monitoring of attacks on the
> critical civilian information infrastructure...." 

     I would bet that with the possible execption of TEMPEST (and I doubt
even then) private industry could do the job cheaper, and more thoroughly 
than the DOD.  
 
> In carving out a position for DOD to take on this role in the civil sector,i
the report bluntly summed up the problem: "We should not forget
> information warfare is a form of warfare, not a crime or an act of terror." 
It took an equally blunt approach on how the Pentagon should respond
> to such an attack or intrusion. "The response could entail civil or criminal 
prosecution, use of military force...diplomatic initiatives or economic
> mandates." 

      Seig Heil 


> to surviving willful malicious attack, or detecting and eliminating corrupt software." 

     As opposed to a benevolent attack? or maybe a friendly attack? 

> "For them to blatantly say, `We want to monitor,' that creates a huge problem," he said. "If the government says, `You don't worry, private sector,
> we're going to take care of you,' they're going to have a problem."

     Hmmm.... I must have taken a wrong turn somewhere. I thought this was 
america, land of the free. Can anyone give me directions on how to get there
from here...

Petro, Christopher C.
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snow@smoke.suba.com