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On Sat, 29 Jun 1996 18:00:42 GMT, YOELK <jkrup@shani.net> wrote: >> Now, as for these two little tidbits -- do you have a problem with >> protecting senstive/classified/top-secret information from those who >> would seek to acquire it through use of a computer and a modem? >> Do you honestly desire that advanced mililtary technology exit the >> United States and enter the hands of our enemies who would use it >> against our troops and our citizens? Is that what you want? >> >> The first article was an interesting one about the creation of a >> "cyberwar" center over at the NSA to combat the infiltration of >> sensitive US computer systems by unauthorized parties operating inside >> and outside US borders. Where is the problem with that? > >Emergency state, national security risk, are nice phrases which are used >to justify violations of civil liberties all over the world. Now also in the US ? Excuse me. But could you identify one major civil liberty being infringed by the creation of a government agency designed to thwart the unauthorized and ILLEGAL penetration of U.S. government computer systems? Do you honestly believe that you have the right to top secret information about the manufacture of nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons? Or do you have the right to learn about top secret U.S. operations or operatives? Or any other military information that could cause great harm to U.S. citizens, agents, or soldiers around the world? >I Don't believe there are such major risks in the Internet. Au contraire, mon ami. There were literally hundreds of unauthorized entries into sensitive military and other government computer systems last year (possibly thousands, I don't have the numbers). In one instance, hackers from the Netherlands penetrated a defense computer system and initiated searches for documents with the term "nuclear" in it (or something to that effect, that was the central theme). And you say there are no risks to the Internet? >There are however other risks related to the Internet, these are political risks. > >Educated people watch less TV today and surf the net instead, less subject to the continoues >brainwash... now they can pick dangerous ideas and might know things they are not supposed to. I don't follow your reasoning here. Are you saying that it's good that people are getting their hands on dangerous information? >The Internet isn't american but world wide organization , and many important american institutes >use it and can't do without it. Looks like a consipracy of the rest of the world against US ;-8). Well, yes, that's obvious (if you can call it an organization). But, then how are you threatened by the formation of a U.S. government organization tasked with defending U.S. government computer systems from unauthorized entry? I don't see it. >.... > >----- >Yoel