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

[Valdis.Kletnieks]

On Thu, 25 Apr 2002 17:54:44 EDT, Steve Goldstein <sgoldste@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

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@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.