[Fsf-friends] *Treachery* in its elements, in its finest form ...

[doxa at antispam]

1. The Bush administration in US has formulated an offensive cyber attack
strategy declared through its National Security Presidential Directive 16.
Details on this at http://www.fas.org/irp/offdocs/nspd/


2. Major news agencies across the world carried the details. 
Clippings from The Hindu.
"...The U.S. President, George W. Bush, has signed a secret directive ordering
his administration to develop a national-level guidance for determining when
and how America should launch cyber attacks against `enemy' computer networks,
officials said...
...military planners imagine soldiers at computer terminals silently invading
foreign networks to shut down radars, disable electrical facilities and disrupt
phone services..."
News from PTI at
http://www.hinduonnet.com/2003/02/08/stories/2003020801891400.htm

3. Against this backdrop, Kerala State Electricity Board is going ahead with its
Microsoft-platform based implementation and Local Self Govt Dept in Kerala is
wedded to Microsoft-based package from Information Kerala Mission. 

What are these middlemen upto ? 
Working for US security ? 
Masking as a recruiting agency for IT professionals ?

Let's watch them a little more closely....

CK Raju,
Thrissur
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Communication will no longer be a means for any revolution, 
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