[ On Tue, November 17, 1998 at 14:29:25 (-0500), David Lesher wrote: ]
Subject: Re: National Infrastructure Protection Center
Unnamed Administration sources reported that Jeremy Porter said:
Despite the fact that we've assisted the local office on a number of occasions (tracing forged email, etc.), there isn't any real interested unless you have large amounts of damage, i.e. $100,000+.
Same thing seems to be true here in Canada w.r.t. the ability of an incident to capture the attention of the RCMP, though of course there are always "exceptions".
And that fact [that I know to be true...] ought to be of interest to any one of a number of print journalists.
Hmmm.... I don't know. It's all about risk assesment.... The RCMP or FBI or whomever don't want to know about kids stealing candy down at the local corner store. Perhaps similar responses are necessary (eg. give a good talking to the guardians or other responsible parties associated with the perpetrators of such inconsequential attacks). Unfortunately due to the international nature of the Internet I'm not sure such peer pressure tactics will work quite so well with parents or whomever, assuming you can even track them down. -- Greg A. Woods +1 416 218-0098 VE3TCP <gwoods@acm.org> <robohack!woods> Planix, Inc. <woods@planix.com>; Secrets of the Weird <woods@weird.com>