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Cyberterror and Professional Paranoiacs By Declan McCullagh, CNET News.com-- During an appearance on Thursday to ask a House panel for a fatter 2004 budget, (Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge) claimed that cyberterrorists were just as dangerous as physical ones. Ridge said his department would "monitor the Internet for signs of a potential terrorist attack, cyberterrorism, hacking, and state-sponsored information warfare."
"We will not distinguish between physical and cyber in this new unit," Ridge said. "We will pay as much attention to the Internet as we do physical."
What is this guy thinking?
Last I checked, it was physical terrorists who bombed the Marine barracks in Lebanon, who attacked the U.S.S. Cole, who took out the Oklahoma City federal building, and who suicide-bombed the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.
Wily-fingered hackers had nothing to do with it.
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