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- <text id=90TT1686>
- <title>
- June 25, 1990: Quick, The Raid
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1990
- June 25, 1990 Who Gives A Hoot?
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- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- GRAPEVINE, Page 15
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- <body>
- <p>By Paul Gray/Reported by David Ellis
- </p>
- <p> QUICK, THE RAID. Everyone knows that the computer industry
- is fighting against viruses, malicious programs that can infect
- whole networks and crash them. So it stands to perverse reason
- that hush-hush agencies like the CIA and NSA are trying to
- create such bugs as offensive weapons. The latest entrant in
- this quest is the U.S. Army, which is soliciting bids on a
- half-million dollar contract to develop tactical virus weapons
- capable of disabling enemy computers on the battlefield. The
- proposal has raised eyebrows among the military's hackers. Says
- one Army computer-security officer: "Many of my colleagues are
- quite surprised that something of this nature would be put on
- the streets for research rather than using the expertise
- internally available."
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- </body>
- </article>
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