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Leonardo/ISAST used name 30+ years, Leonardo Finance trademarks name in 1999!
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On a different note, one government conspiracy theory on the Denial of Service attacks:
Wired.com reported that privacy advocate Jim Warren is offering the theory that the U.S. government staged the attacks to shore up their proposals for expanding government power to monitor electronic transmissions. "What better way to 'prove' the need for massively expanded government surveillance and create a frenzy of support for it?" says Warren. "It's a disturbing coincidence that immediately after the Clinton administration declares war on cyber terrorism ... suddenly we have a continuous cascade of denial-of-service attacks on the highest-of-the high on the Internet." Who can say if these events were connected?
Actions produce reactions, and in some cases they can be worse than the crime that prompted it. It is true that national security bureaucracies need — and sometimes exaggerate or invent — threats to justify the expansion of their own power. Already the major electronic commerce businesses are lobbying the government to "do something" — anything — which, in turn, may lead to the passage of draconian laws that, in the guise of responding to this "crisis," could create a dangerous but well-funded bureaucracy of even more sophisticated and aggressive computer cops. It sounds like the Central Intelligence Agency may be spawning another CIA — the Computer Intelligence Agency, if it hasn't already done so. The White House is proposing the formation of a new cyber security center.
And that is likely to have political impacts. It is already around the world. The KGB is back in action in Russia with a new Internet surveillance program. (See "New KGB Takes Internet By SORM" in Mother Jones for a detailed story.) In China, sites are being systematically censored. MediaChannel.org appears to be banned there already. This week the Armenian Foreign Ministry accused Azerbaijani computer hackers of violating human rights — the right of access to information — for their part in a successful effort to block Internet sites that serve as disseminators of Armenian news and information.... etc., etc. You can see a pattern emerging, fed by paranoia, greed and self-interest.
Don't say it can't or won't happen here.
- Danny Schechter, "The News Dissector," is the Founder and Executive Editor of the Media Channel and author of News Dissector (Electron Press, February).full government conspiracy theory above was taken from here
