A Chance to Assess Ground Zero's Historical Significance By HERBERT MUSCHAMP , NYTimes Architectural preservationists are coming to the rescue one more time. ...
Download the report at www.ceip.org/WMD SUMMARY OF KEY FINDINGS Iraq WMD Was Not An Immediate Threat · Iraq's nuclear program had been suspended for many...
AP Adobe Systems has acknowledged that it quietly added technology to the world's best-known graphics software at the request of government regulators and...
[FC - every once in a while I like to remind the list of fora such as this one] From: Ron Levine <rlevine@...> Date: Tue Jan 13 2004 - 22:20:18 PST ...
http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=17547 Home B; <http://www.alternet.org/> Top Stories B; <http://www.alternet.org/> The Real National Security...
<http://www.terrorismcentral.com/Newsletters/CurrentNewsletter.html> from the TerrorismCentral Newsletter -- For the week ending January 25, 2004 -- 8....
Outsourcing Helps World Economy, Say Experts at Conference By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Filed at 8:21 p.m. ET BOMBAY, India (AP) -- Outsourcing information...
Hey all, I was linking into the 9-11 commission (note how I typed it). The link from an MSN search came up with 'screen shots' with the links hidden (Ie:...
Geostrategy-Direct Week of February 10, 2004 BACKGROUNDER: Compiled by Bill Gertz Internet worm traced to Russia The Internet e-mail worm known as Mydoom has...
... Good catch. Wonder how they do that ... If you could gather (cooperatively or otherwise) a wide range of "earliest infection" time/place stats, you might...
Tony Bartoletti
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Feb 9, 2004 7:14 pm
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Excellent observation, Tony. I was wondering the same thing. Despite the fact that computer viruses seem to behave like its biological namesake, the...
... An excellent point, of course. But let's also acknowledge another big issue. The Internet reeks of computers set to incorrect times, incorrect time...
... At least, it would be wise to have all "critical services" either off-web ("Internet"), or on an independent network with new and strongly authenticated...
Tony Bartoletti
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Feb 10, 2004 8:25 pm
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Given its global reach and divided ownership/use/operation/etc, urging Congress to "dismantle" the Internet goes beyond the absurd. The Internet is not a...
... I've said it before and I'll say it again. If America's critical infrastructures are so fragile that a single HTTP request can push us to the brink of...
... Ok Rob, ya got me :) (Tone of voice is sometimes hard to discern in email ... :) ____tony____...
Tony Bartoletti
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Feb 11, 2004 2:39 am
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I find this a fascinating discussions at this point and I want to hear some more views. In addition, I want to keep it civil (hint toward certain of the...
... [snip] ... Let's assume for a moment that the US dismantles the US portion of the Internet for national security reasons (we can't force the rest of the...
Eli! - I haven't heard from you in years... ... ... Consider that the Internet may not just disappear - rather - it will be replaced by something else....
... For at least one perspective on some of those possible futures, I suggest reading "Code and other laws of Cyberspace" by Lawrence Lessig. I think that...
... Eli, I agree. It's evolution rather than replacement. If there is one aspect of the Internet/Cyberspace phenomenon that is (to a large degree)...
Tony Bartoletti
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Feb 14, 2004 1:05 am
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Per the message sent by Eli Dart: ... Except that the sources of power are very different now than they have been historically. The Internet has reshaped...
... A bit of hyperbole, but there is truth in it. I say, one MUST compare this "Internet" thing to biology. We (human) bodies are susceptible to virii. A...
Tony Bartoletti
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Feb 14, 2004 2:01 am
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Per the message sent by Tony Bartoletti: ... ... I strongly agree here, and power in this venue has more to do with the ability to create and sustain life that...
... I honestly agree. As a corollary, those who *fight* viruses could retake the power ... except they seem fixated on the symptoms rather than the problems. ...
An observation for comments from the group: Attackers have recently learned to rapidly translate a patch into an attack. First they take a snapshot of system...
C.I.A. Admits It Didn't Give Weapon Data to the U.N. By DOUGLAS JEHL and DAVID E. SANGER Published: February 21, 2004 ASHINGTON, Feb. 20 — The Central...
... I repeat myself when I say this is exactly why Congress must dismantle the Internet as a national security threat. :-| You're not the only one to make...
http://www.crime-research.org/news/19.02.2004/49 Al-Qaeda prepares new cyber attacks on national infrastructure of the USA. As is well known "Abu-Nafsa...