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ARS ELECTRONICA FESTIVAL 98
INFOWAR. information.macht.krieg
Linz, Austria, september 07 - 12
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Teens a Threat, Pentagon Says
by Wayne Madsen
3:10pm 2.Jun.98.PDT
McLEAN, Virginia -- In the latest Pentagon alarm about the potential of
cyberterrorism, a senior US Defense Department official told an
industry-military forum today that teenage crackers pose a "real threat
environment" to national security.
Speaking to the Defense Modeling and Simulation Office Industry Days
conference, Jacques Gansler, undersecretary of defense for acquisition and
technology, said that in addition to using advanced computerized modeling
and simulation techniques to help train pilots and tank drivers, and
design and build warplanes and submarines, Pentagon war fighters must be
able to fight information wars to achieve, as he put it, "total
information superiority" for the United States.
Gansler talked up President Clinton's recent directive to build the United
States' ability to defend its largely automated infrastructure from
cyberattack. In raising the issue of information system security to a
national security issue, Presidential Decision Directive 63 could also
mean billions of dollars in new defense contracts.
Last winter, a series of cracker intrusions into US military computers
caused a flurry of headlines and prompted renewed warnings that the United
States is vulnerable to cyberattack. The intrusions were later found to be
the work of an Israeli teenager, Ehud Tenebaum, who went by the handle
"Analyzer."
Analyst consensus was that Tenebaum, who has since been drafted into the
Israeli army, did not succeed in penetrating classified military or
research computer systems.
(http://www.wired.com/news/news/business/story/12687.html)
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