Ohhhhh, Noooo! There are cyber thugs attacking the net!
Somebody has to DO SOMETHING! So ZDNet's proposing things that
Somebody ought to Do. And they're holding a National Town Hall
in SF April 20 10am-1pm to talk about it. 650 Townsend is about
4 blocks from Caltrain, and it's the home of Linuxcare and Thinklink.
Feds, Cisco, Mudge, and Brad Templeton will be speaking.
And there are a couple of online polls - vote early and often.
The government National Plan document is at
http://www.zdnet.com/graphics/specialreports/national_plan.pdf
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(From Jesse Berst's column:)
TAKE BACK THE NET: HOW TO FIGHT CYBER THUGS -- BEFORE IT'S TOO LATE
http://cgi.zdnet.com/slink?/adeska/ad1tlt0403ba/4626:476099
A year ago it was Melissa. Two months ago denial-of-service
attacks. What's next? Let's not wait to find out.
It's time to declare war on cyber thugs. Come to
the site where I've outlined a plan to take back
the Net. You may not like it -- but we may not have
any other choice.
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NATIONAL TOWN HALL, April 20, 9:30-1 650 Townsend, San Francisco
http://www.zdnet.com/special/stories/defense/0,10459,2487555-2,00.html
Speakers
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Jeffrey A. Hunker (keynote) National Security Council and
senior White House advisor on threats to critical infrastructure.
John S. Tritak director of the federal government's
Critical Infrastructure Assurance Office (CIAO)
Kenneth C. Watson manager of Critical Infrastructure Protection, Cisco
Systems Inc.
Mudge "gray-hat" hacker, VP of research and development of @Stake
Brad Templeton board member of the of the Electronic Frontier Foundation
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Government's National Plan Document
http://www.zdnet.com/graphics/specialreports/national_plan.pdf
Thanks!
Bill
Bill Stewart, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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