Brown-tinged guesstimates and security scarepimping

Jim Westrich westrich at miser.umass.edu
Mon Aug 12 11:52:08 PDT 2002


The Federal Computer Week on Al Qaeda threats:

http://www.fcw.com/fcw/articles/2002/0722/web-attack-07-25-02.asp

A rant on this scaremongering (along with fervid grant-writing for juicy security contracts) from the folks at VMyths (don't bother with the audio version):

http://www.vmyths.com/rant.cfm?id=501&page=4

Jim

"Those who have had no share in the good fortunes of the mighty often have a share in their misfortunes."

--Bertolt Brecht, "The Caucasian Chalk Circle"



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