CIA Warns of Chinese Plans for Cyber-Attacks on U.S.

W. Mark Townsley townsley at cisco.com
Sat Apr 27 13:35:57 UTC 2002




Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu wrote:
> 
> On Thu, 25 Apr 2002 17:54:44 EDT, Steve Goldstein <sgoldste at nsf.gov> said:
> > Gosh, oh golly-gee, do you really think that they would do something
> > like that (planting a story)?
> 
> Well, officially, we've decided that we don't do disinformation:
> 
> http://www.fas.org/sgp/news/2002/02/dod022602.html

Sorry, I just had to comment on this pic from the article you pointed us to...

http://www.fas.org/nuke/hew/Usa/Tests/Cshrimp.jpg

In this picture of one of the most explosive nuclear bombs in US history, we
find a small sign at the bottom: "DANGER -- NO SMOKING" :-/


> 
> Of course, the tinfoil helmet brigade, and most even-more-reasonable
> people, would note that "we're closing down our Office of Disinformation"
> would be the last we'd hear of it......
> 
> On Thu, 25 Apr 2002 18:40:24 EDT, Deepak Jain <deepak at ai.net>  said:
> > The threat to LA is the best available because I don't think they have a
> > missle delivery vehicle capable of reaching any East Coast cities.
> 
> It's called a "barge".
> 
> http://www.fas.org/nuke/hew/Usa/Tests/Castle.html
> 
> See the Castle Romeo test, and many of the following ones.
> 
> We now return to Junipers running Outlook and other semi-operational material.



More information about the NANOG mailing list