Y2K Cover, and the W88 (was sat hack)

Michael Butler (mmb@best.com)
Sun, 7 Mar 1999 07:45:44 -0800 (PST)


That link was stale, but ABC's Web site is covering leaks of data go China about the W88 warhead internals.

Prediction: It will turn out that various actors have been collecting intel on "exploits" of critical systems, public and black-ops, and will time their assaults on same to best advantage with whatever "organic" or "genuine" Y2K problems arise. Or they'll threaten to, and extort whatever the market will bear out of the targets. The UK milsat is just the tip of the iceberg, whether it really got hacked or not. IMPORTANT NOTE:
Can someone who knows how help me set up an ideas exchange entry for that? I want in on the ground floor.

Thanks,

MMB

Date: Sun, 07 Mar 1999 23:45:58 +0000
From: Damien Broderick <damien@ariel.ucs.unimelb.edu.au> Reply-To: extropians@extropy.com
To: extropians@lucifer.com
Subject: sat hack

You'll all have seen this by now?

http://www.abcnews.go.com/sections/world/DailyNews/pentagonrussia990304.html

Ah yes, *what they leave out*...

What this satellite mover is, see, I reckon, it's a rogue AI (US military, presumably, with inside dope) feeling its oats...

Damien Broderick