Experts: Don't dismiss cyberattack warning

Wed Nov 20 18:45:53 UTC 2002


> Barney Wolff wrote:
> ...
> But it would be quite foolish to underestimate the
>  capability of any large group, sufficiently motivated, to inflict
>  massive damage.

I agree. Never underestimate power of a fringe lunatic group to
cause harm.  Now, I am going to go out on a thin limb and
ask the following: When Experts say,
"don't dismiss cyberattack warning,"  what can somebody like
me (just a regular user) or for that matter
others with several degrees of better knowledge in the workings
of cyber networks than I,  do to stop cyber attacks from happening?
-raj kulkarni
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> Most Muslims are not Arab, or living in caves.  There are certainly
> millions of Muslim computer users, by now.  In fact, I'd bet there
> are more than a million Muslim computer users in the US alone.
>
> Most Muslims, thank God, are not murderous fanatics or computer
> abusers.  But it would be quite foolish to underestimate the
> capability of any large group, sufficiently motivated, to inflict
> massive damage.
>
> On Tue, Nov 19, 2002 at 07:40:14PM -0600, Stephen Sprunk wrote:
> >
> > I'm not skeptical that millions of starving Arabs living in caves or being
> > slaughtered by their dictators are going to find computers, connect to the
> > Net (outlawed by their leaders), and attack us.
>
> --
> Barney Wolff         http://www.databus.com/bwresume.pdf
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