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                Date: 2000-07-25
                 
                 
                Die Absenz von Cyberterror
                
                 
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      Die Frage wo denn die gefährlichen Cyberterroristen, für  
deren Bekämpfung Millionen Dollar ausgegeben werden,  
geblieben sind, stellt dieser Artikel aus dem Industry  
Standard, der zur Lektüre im Volltext ausdrücklich empfohlen  
wird. 
 
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Millions of tax dollars are spent each year to combat  
cyberterrorism. But where are the perpetrators? 
 
On Feb. 4, 1999, FBI director Louis Freeh went before the  
Senate Appropriations Committee's Subcommittee on the  
Departments of Commerce, Justice and State, and testified  
that since the 1993 World Trade Center bombing "no  
significant act of foreign-directed terrorism has occurred on  
American soil. 
 
"The frequency of terrorist incidents in the United States has  
decreased in number," claimed Freeh. In fact, Freeh stated,  
the main threat of terrorist activity is abortion-clinic bombings  
and right-wing militias who may gain access to weapons of  
mass destruction. 
 
Not once in his testimony did Freeh mention any specific  
cyber-terrorism threat, planned or carried out. 
 
Freeh then asked for $36.7 million for the Technology and  
Cyber Crimes initiative, and another $13 million for the  
National Infrastructure Protection Center, or NIPC. How  
come? 
 
For that matter, what happened to the "electronic Pearl  
Harbor" that Rep. Curt Weldon (R-Pa.) promised us in 1999,  
when he said it was not a matter of if but when we would be  
the targets of massive Internet-based attacks? Or the "foreign  
infiltrators" into U.S. Y2K projects that NIPC head Michael  
Vatis warned of in 1999? These potential cyber terrorists,  
Vatis claimed, would place dangerous Trojan horses and  
malicious code into the systems they were hired to fix. The  
infrastructure of the United States, he warned, could be at  
risk. 
 
Full Text 
http://www.thestandard.com/article/display/0,1151,16974,00.html  
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edited by Harkank 
published on: 2000-07-25 
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