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was appalled, asking if there wasn't anyone in the government
* who remembered how the FBI played the game in the bad old days?
*
* "To the applause of voters fearful of terrorism," Safire wrote, "the pro-
* activists declare their intention to prevent crime. This would be followed
* by surveillance of suspect groups by using new technology, the infiltra-
* tion of political movements deemed radical or violence prone; and the
* stretching of guidelines put in place 20 years ago to restrain yesterday's
* zealots."

Fear, loathing, hysteria, and a massive misdirection of resources:

* At about the same time that the FBI agent was knocking on Mrs. Bernard's
* door, the bureau had 21,000 allegations of savings and loan fraud it was
* unable to investigate, and at least 2,400 inactive financial crime inves-
* tigations awaiting consideration. In the San Diego area, for example,
* lack of available agents meant the FBI would not even consider investi-
* gating bank fraud cases unless they involved losses of at least one
* million dollars.


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War #5 - Hackers
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o Secret Service: Harassment of 2600
o Secret Service: Vile Persecution of Ed Cummings
o Secret Service: Harassment of Steve Jackson Games


* The New York Times, CyberTimes, June 20, 1997
*
* Panel Chief Says Computer Attacks Are Sure to Come
*
* By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
*
* WASHINGTON -- It is "only a matter of time" before critical U.S. computer
* systems face major attack, the head of a White House panel on the nation's
* infrastructure systems warned.
*
* Robert Marsh is the head of the President's Commission on Critical
* Infrastructure Protection.

Whatever should we do about those nasty hackers?

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