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Date:       2015-06-23 14:34:34
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/sf/business/2015/06/22/net-of-insecurity-part-3/

By Craig Timberg
The Washington Post
June 22, 2015

The seven young men sitting before some of Capitol Hill's most powerful 
lawmakers weren't graduate students or junior analysts from some think 
tank. No, Space Rogue, Kingpin, Mudge and the others were hackers who had 
come from the mysterious environs of cyberspace to deliver a terrifying 
warning to the world.

Your computers, they told the panel of senators in May 1998, are not safe 
— not the software, not the hardware, not the networks that link them 
together. The companies that build these things don't care, the hackers 
continued, and they have no reason to care because failure costs them 
nothing. And the federal government has neither the skill nor the will to 
do anything about it.

"If you're looking for computer security, then the Internet is not the 
place to be," said Mudge, then 27 and looking like a biblical prophet with 
long brown hair flowing past his shoulders. The Internet itself, he added, 
could be taken down "by any of the seven individuals seated before you" 
with 30 minutes of well-choreographed keystrokes.

The senators — a bipartisan group including John Glenn, Joseph I. 
Lieberman and Fred D. Thompson — nodded gravely, making clear that they 
understood the gravity of the situation. "We're going to have to do 
something about it," Thompson said.

[...]



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