Wednesday, June 26, 2002

cyber-attacks -- Al Qaeda fear "The devices are called distributed control systems, or DCS, and supervisory control and data acquisition, or SCADA, systems. The simplest ones collect measurements, throw railway switches, close circuit-breakers or adjust valves in the pipes that carry water, oil and gas. More complicated versions sift incoming data, govern multiple devices and cover a broader area... "Red Teams" of mock intruders from the Energy Department's four national laboratories have devised what one government document listed as "eight scenarios for SCADA attack on an electrical power grid" -- and all of them work. Eighteen such exercises have been conducted to date against large regional utilities, and Richard A. Clarke, Bush's cyber-security adviser, said the intruders "have always, always succeeded." [Post] worth reading -- the US et al we'll probably still get broadsided 9:49:51 PM    no soap, Radio DrudgeReport headlines tonight: NYT THURSDAY: U.S. NO LONGER REGARDED AS BEST PLACE TO INVEST... Dollar slides to brink of free fall... Euro nears parity... Worldwide web of debt unravelling... THE GREED, THE FRAUD, THE CRASH film at 11 9:14:53 PM    Mitra 2:55:48 PM    Maureen Dowd: The Age of Acquiescence "The fix is now institutionalized," Mr. Nader says. "When Congress won't double the S.E.C. budget in the middle of a corporate crime wave, it shows that the system is irreversibly decayed. As Brandeis said, we can have a democratic society or we can have a concentration of great wealth in the hands of a few, but we cannot have both." [NYTimes] 2:45:12 PM    one nation under the influence of something: Wednesday, June 26, 2002; 2:31 PM SAN FRANCISCO -- A federal appeals court ruled Wednesday that the Pledge of Allegiance is an unconstitutional endorsement of religion and cannot be recited in schools. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals overturned a 1954 act of Congress inserting the phrase "under God" after the words "one nation" in the pledge. The court said the phrase violates the so-called Establishment Clause in the Constitution that requires a separation of church and state. "A profession that we are a nation 'under God' is identical, for Establishment Clause purposes, to a profession that we are a nation 'under Jesus,' a nation 'under Vishnu,' a nation 'under Zeus,' or a nation 'under no god,' because none of these professions can be neutral with respect to religion," Judge Alfred T. Goodwin wrote for the three-judge panel. AP 2:35:46 PM    The View From Tehran [NYTimes] 6:58:17 AM    Doctors vs. Geeks [Chuck Shotton] 6:53:11 AM

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