Cyberterrorism Watch: Threat Level to Grill Infowar Scholars This Weekend

Date: January 25, 2008
Source: Blog.Wired.com
By: Kevin Poulsen

With the United States' top spy calling for blanket internet surveillance to counter cyber attacks, and the CIA claiming that hackers are already triggering multi-city power outages, there's never been a better time to prepare for Cybarmageddon!

On Saturday, I'll be moderating a panel on the myths and facts of cyber terrorism at the Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility's Technology in Wartime conference at Stanford University. The panelists are Dr. Herb Lin from the National Academies' National Research Council, and cyber security expert Professor Neil Rowe from the U.S. Naval Postgraduate School.

Danger Room's Noah Shachtman will also be on hand, on an all-star panel exploring the military's use of tech-equipped "smart" soldiers in battle.

As if that weren't enough, CPSR president Annalee Newitz -- she of the Sarah Connor Chronicles' boosting io9.com -- will deliver the opening remarks, seconds before nmap-author and GoDaddy victim Fyodor Vaskovich takes the podium to hit Bruce Schneier with a Norbert Wiener Award. Schneier will then deliver a 45-minute keynote while factoring large primes in his head.

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