Here's the link from WorldNetDaily:

New Year fear: Y2K or terror?

Ray

-- Ray (ray@totacc.com), October 11, 1999

Answers

answer: C - both of the above.

-- Dan G (earth_changes@hotmail.com), October 11, 1999.

From: Y2K, ` la Carte by Dancr (pic), near Monterey, California

I believe that significant Y2K problems are a certainty. Cyberterrorism is also a possibility, but much less likely. Government will claim that Y2K is 100% licked, and that cyberterrorism is a distinct possibibility, but that we will be able to easily defend against it. Then... when the computers break, it will be blamed on cyberterrorism, no matter what happened, and even if they haven't yet figured out what happened.

-- Dancr (addy.available@my.webpage), October 11, 1999.

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"But it is not government computers that some terrorists will be going after. Osama bin Laden has been quoted in London and Israel papers as having a much different target. He reportedly has ordered his forces to shut down American banking, communications, power and transportation systems."

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-- no talking please (breadlines@soupkitchen.gov), October 11, 1999.

no talking please,

Thread please! If your're going to make strong statements like you do, please back them up!!!

I don't recall your response to my questions in an earlier post: (1) Just who are you?, and (2) why did you feel the need to put a disclaimer at the end of your post?

-- truthseeker (truthseeker@seektruth.always), October 11, 1999.

meanwhile the population will be guessing what is keeping their networks down and their electricity out and the government can use whichever excuse suits their purpose and provides the least amount of liability? right?

-- tt (cuddluppy@yahoo.com), October 11, 1999.

Sure, those are Bib Laden's targets, but the government will probably have to use the cyber-terrorism excuse anyway to cover up their own lack of compliance.

-- Elskon (elskon@bigfoot.com), October 11, 1999.

This would be funny if it weren't so serious. Here we have the government, unprepared for Y2K, warning about unlikely terrorism causing Y2K-like failures. And then saying that they will be ready to defend against it, when they can't fix that any more than they can fix real Y2K bugs!

The truth is that all commercial operating systems and networks on the market are full of security holes. And that system administrators don't even bother to apply the upgrades to fix known holes. And that exhaustive lists of the holes, and tools to exploit them, are available to every hacker in the world.

However it's also true that things like the power grid SCADA systems are not connected to the Internet (yet) and are not vulnerable to some random hacker working over the net. Talk of terrorists shutting down power are just a tactic to drum up funding for gov't net monitoring.

And it's also true that any complex society is fundamentally vulnerable to terrorism. If a couple of nuts can blow up an office building in Oklahoma City with minimal support, an effort funded by a foreign goverment should be able to do 100 times the damage. Why there is so little terrorism is a mystery to me, but it's a fact that we don't get much of it in the U.S., and that hasn't changed recently.

-- You Know... (notme@nothere.junk), October 11, 1999.

Truthseeker - READ the article linked in the first post of this thread - second to last paragraph...

-- Valkyrie (anon@please.xnet), October 11, 1999.