Re: Would there be a military strike?

From: JWMeritt (jwmeritt_at_aol.com)
Date: 10/29/03 

Date: 29 Oct 2003 14:38:35 GMT

Walt Howard wrote:
>In article <20031028121303.27579.00000251@mb-m04.aol.com>,
>JWMeritt <jwmeritt@aol.com> wrote:
>>Going from the premptive strike philosophy demonstrated in Mideastern
>>countries, what are your thoughts on a military strike against (as yet
>>unseen) "cyberterrorists" a'la
>>http://www.msnbc.com/news/985295.asp?0si=- if there were extranational
>>agents tampering with identified components of the infrastructure to
>>the extent that they were risking human life?
>
>If non-functionality of any portion of the Internet puts human life at
>risk, I'd find the admins of that portion and give them enough budget
>to have a fallback plan.

All components of the Information Infrastructure are not on the Internet.
There are, for instance, a lot of dial-in sites. And AFTER the event does
little to help a corpse.

I'm assuming that you have read Presidential Decision Directive 63 and
follow-on...

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