Return-Path: <sentto-279987-4306-1011107734-fc=all.net@returns.groups.yahoo.com> Delivered-To: fc@all.net Received: from 204.181.12.215 [204.181.12.215] by localhost with POP3 (fetchmail-5.7.4) for fc@localhost (single-drop); Tue, 15 Jan 2002 07:18:10 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 23723 invoked by uid 510); 15 Jan 2002 15:15:45 -0000 Received: from n11.groups.yahoo.com (216.115.96.61) by all.net with SMTP; 15 Jan 2002 15:15:45 -0000 X-eGroups-Return: sentto-279987-4306-1011107734-fc=all.net@returns.groups.yahoo.com Received: from [216.115.97.189] by n11.groups.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 15 Jan 2002 15:15:34 -0000 X-Sender: drewschaefer@ftnetwork.com X-Apparently-To: iwar@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-8_0_1_3); 15 Jan 2002 15:15:33 -0000 Received: (qmail 10030 invoked from network); 15 Jan 2002 15:15:33 -0000 Received: from unknown (216.115.97.172) by m3.grp.snv.yahoo.com with QMQP; 15 Jan 2002 15:15:33 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO email003) (216.35.122.219) by mta2.grp.snv.yahoo.com with SMTP; 15 Jan 2002 15:15:33 -0000 Received: from AspEmail ([216.35.122.203]) by email003 with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.5.1877.197.19); Tue, 15 Jan 2002 07:09:00 -0800 To: "iwar@yahoogroups.com" <iwar@yahoogroups.com> Message-ID: <08b690009150f12EMAIL003@email003> From: <DrewSchaefer@ftnetwork.com> X-Yahoo-Profile: drewschaeferjd Mailing-List: list iwar@yahoogroups.com; contact iwar-owner@yahoogroups.com Delivered-To: mailing list iwar@yahoogroups.com Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:iwar-unsubscribe@yahoogroups.com> Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2002 07:09:00 -0800 Subject: [iwar] Comment on Canada article Reply-To: iwar@yahoogroups.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Don't think anyone sent to ObL a copy of Abbie Hoffman's "Steal this Book!", do you? He described a 'try-this-at-home, kids!' way (back in 1968 or so) in which you simply take the male end of an extension cord (American two-prong), wire it into the right two wires of any landline phone (don't ask me which: steal that book!), and then plug the cord into any wall socket. He claimed the result of 110V in a 6V phone system "Would melt down the entire NYC system ..." I haven't kept abreast whether phone systems are so vulnerable still, and I hesitated about even writing this, as in not wanting to promote such activities, but: When you read in the Int'l Herald Tribune, once a week, another article offering something like: "We spoke to the head of Coast Guard operations in Long Beach Harbor, and he thinks a valid attack method would be to put a nuke inside a container, and then get that ship as close to a berth prior to detonation ..." I mean SHHHHHeeeesssssshhhhh! "Hey Osama, here's another American idiot giving us an idea!" So now I join the club. Take out the infrastructures of the US economy, and you don't even have to kill anyone to start another panic. Cheers, Drew Message: 3 Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2002 09:10:36 -0800 (PST) From: Fred Cohen Subject: [fc:Al-Qaida.Cyber.Capability] Al-Qaida Cyber Capability Office of Critical Infrastructure Protection and Emergency Preparedness, Government of Canada, 1/14/2002 http://www.epc-pcc.gc.ca/emergencies/other/TA01-001_E.html Key Judgements: Al-Qaida (the group formed and led by Osama bin Laden) has not engaged in computer-based attacks in the past. However, in the wake of the World Trade Center (WTC) attacks, bin Laden has suggested that Al-Qaida has the expertise to use the computer as a weapon. Given the economic damage the United States suffered due to the WTC attacks, it is possible that those responsible may shift their sights away from primarily symbolic targets, such as heavily populated buildings or sports stadiums, toward critical infrastructures. [snip] Drew Schaefer, JD Tel: +41.76.443.1457 9, ruelle des Galeries 1248 Hermance, Suisse ***************************************************** "Ignorance of the world is not a solution, nor is inaction. Going to sleep means being awaken by nightmares." -- DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS, INC. "In every country and in every age, the priest has been hostile to liberty. He is always in alliance with the despot, abetting his abuses in return for protection to his own." --Thomas Jefferson to Horatio G. Spafford, 1814. 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