Appologies for the flagrant plug, but this was covered indepth at Blackhat '99 in Las Vegas. All the presentations are online, including mine, which detailed problems with the way that BGP is designed, implemented and configured. It's all available at www.blackhat.com
They made this claim almost 2 years ago. I wouldn't speak for them, but it's kinda like asking yelling "Ziggy!" at a David Bowie concert.
Whether the CIA is actually yelling, "Smithers! Release the skript kiddies!" or not, the public threat of using crackbabies against Serbia could make all hackers legitimate military targets.
McLuhan had a quote about this along the lines of "WWIII will be a geurilla information war with no differentiation between military and civilian participants." I'm not sure this is what he had in mind, but this could expose the civilian net.geek population to military action from domestic and foreign threats.
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They made this claim almost 2 years ago. I wouldn't speak for them, but it's kinda like asking yelling "Ziggy!" at a David Bowie concert.
Whether the CIA is actually yelling,
"Smithers! Release the skript kiddies!" or
not, the public threat of using crackbabies
against Serbia could make all hackers legitimate military targets.
McLuhan had a quote about this along the lines
of "WWIII will be a geurilla information war
with no differentiation between military and
civilian participants." I'm not sure this
is what he had in mind, but this could expose
the civilian net.geek population to military
action from domestic and foreign threats.