--- begin forwarded text From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2000 13:06:30 -0400 (EDT) To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: NSA wants it all Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://foxnews.com/vtech/101700/nsa_fox.sml [snipped] # # War of the Web # NSA prepares the U.S. for battle online # Tuesday, October 17, 2000 # # The U.S. National Security Agency wants to do battle in cyberspace. # # "Information is now a place," Air Force Lt. Gen. Michael Hayden told # a major computer security conference in Baltimore on Monday. "It is # a place where we must ensure American security as surely as land, sea, # air and space." # # And the NSA - the military agency responsible for intercepting # communications worldwide - doesn't just care about defense. # # Ultimately the NSA must become the "security statement" of the U.S. # telecommunications and computer industries, just as he views the Air # Force as the "military statement" of the aviation industry, he said. # "How else does our society develop the tools we need to do what it # is that our agency has been charged to do?" --- end forwarded text -- ----------------- R. A. Hettinga <mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED]> The Internet Bearer Underwriting Corporation <http://www.ibuc.com/> 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA "... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity, [predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'
