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Lost in cyberspace - The Bush administration?s war against a bogus threat
by w1ld at 9:29 am EST, Mar 4, 2003 |
HOW ELSE TO explain the credulity with which the Bush administration?s National Strategy To Secure Cyberspace was greeted last month? The 76-page document is chock full of what computer-security experts term ?FUD? ? geek shorthand for spreading bogus ?fear, uncertainty, and doubt.? Never mind that the hype over alleged ?cyberterrorism? has been thoroughly debunked, time and time again. The government?s information technology sages still trot out dubious stats in support of a looming ?cyberwar,? claiming that hostile nations possess legions of computer-savvy shock troops ready to knock out New York?s electricity, zap the nation?s phone lines, or open up the Hoover Dam.
--- What is your thoughts on Bush's "Secure Cyberspace"? |
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RE: Lost in cyberspace - The Bush administration?s war against a bogus threat
by flynn23 at 11:53 am EST, Mar 4, 2003 |
w1ld wrote:
] HOW ELSE TO explain the credulity with which the Bush
] administration?s National Strategy To Secure Cyberspace was
] greeted last month? The 76-page document is chock full of what
] computer-security experts term ?FUD? ? geek shorthand for
] spreading bogus ?fear, uncertainty, and doubt.? Never mind
] that the hype over alleged ?cyberterrorism? has been
] thoroughly debunked, time and time again. The government?s
] information technology sages still trot out dubious stats in
] support of a looming ?cyberwar,? claiming that hostile nations
] possess legions of computer-savvy shock troops ready to knock
] out New York?s electricity, zap the nation?s phone lines, or
] open up the Hoover Dam.
] ---
]
] What is your thoughts on Bush's "Secure Cyberspace"? my thought is pretty much the same on most of Bush's initiatives. |
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