This is the famous hearing where Mudge told senators he could K-O the Internet in 30 minutes. It was a wide-ranging discussion, though Mudge's claim is what the media ran with at the time. Watch and ask yourself, as Trustwave's Tom Brennan does on his Facebook page this morning: “14 Years… have we gotten better?”
I think as Tom said, with all the spending, with all the hoopla, we have not achieved any security (as you and Winn noted in the early 90's). For everything that has been said, for the government it has turned into another method to rob the citizen blind…..
The infamous ‘take down the Internet in 30 minutes' hearing from 1998
A video has surfaced from 1998, showing some well-known members of the hacker community testifying before the United States Senate Committee on Governmental Affairs.
In this video, recorded on May 19, 1998, you will see Brian Oblivion, Kingpin, Tan, Space Rogue, Weld Pond, Mudge, and Stefan von Neumann.
This is the famous hearing where Mudge told senators he could K-O the Internet in 30 minutes. It was a wide-ranging discussion, though Mudge's claim is what the media ran with at the time. Watch and ask yourself, as Trustwave's Tom Brennan does on his Facebook page this morning: “14 Years… have we gotten better?”
Phi Beta Iota: Winn Schwartau and Peter Black were among the first to warn all of us in 1990. In 1994 the alarm was sounded with a letter and very specific spending recommendations from Jim Anderson, then a top NSA security consultant, Winn Schwartau, Bill Caelli, and Robert Steele. The letter was ignored. Today, just short of 20 years later, the US Government remains ignorant, unethical, and ineffective in cyberspace.
See Also:
1994 Sounding the Alarm on Cyber-Security
2010 Homeland Security Today America's Cyberscam
2011 Cyber-Command or IO 21 + IO Roots
Berto Jongman: Anonymous Takes Down CIA Website + RECAP
Berto Jongman: War of the Cyber Worm Plus Meta-RECAP
DefDog: $15 Billion for Cyber-Command, Zero for Actual Needs + Meta-RECAP
DefDog: Cyber-Command Can’t Find Ball…
DefDog: Deja Vu on Cyber-Security, 25 Years After Terminal Compromise
DefDog: Is DHS Stupid, Dishonest, or Both? + RECAP
DefDog: NASA lost ‘full control’ to hackers, pwned 13 times last year
DefDog: Russia-Europe-China Ignore US Cyber-Fools
DefDog: STRATFOR Bites on Security
Journal: Army Industrial-Era Network Security + Cyber-Security RECAP (Links to Past Posts)
Journal: Cyber-Counterintelligence Not Intelligent
Journal: Cyber-Idiocy Wipes Out Productivity
Journal: Reflections on Integrity UPDATED + Integrity RECAP
Mario Profaca: US Lacks Cyber-Intelligence + RECAP
Reference: Advanced Cyber-IO (First Cut)
Reference: Reinventing Intelligence, From Truth, Power
Robert Steele: Ignored 1994, Ignored 2011–Deja Vu
SCADA Vulnerabilities–Known Problem Since 1990
TDL-4 Rules–Industrial Era Governments Helpless
US Arms Industry Bleeding Secrets–This Is Not New
