RE: CRIME An article from CBS.MarketWatch.com

From: Robert Johnston (bob@private)
Date: Thu Oct 10 2002 - 05:50:44 PDT

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    Where did we get the "One Billion Dollar" number. I think someone pulled
    it out of their backside.
    
    
    Robert Johnston
    Datajockeys, LLC
    Hillsboro, OR
    
    -----Original Message-----
    From: owner-crime@private [mailto:owner-crime@private] On Behalf
    Of Dorning, Kevin E - DI-3
    Sent: Wednesday, October 09, 2002 1:37 PM
    To: 'Greg Jorgensen'; retzerj@private
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    Subject: RE: CRIME An article from CBS.MarketWatch.com
    
    
    It's easier than that.  How much has the west coast longshoreman lock
    out cost the nation so far (billions a day) and that's legal.
    
    Kd>
    
    -----Original Message-----
    From: Greg Jorgensen [mailto:gregj@private]
    Sent: Wednesday, October 09, 2002 1:13 PM
    To: retzerj@private
    Cc: crime@private
    Subject: Re: CRIME An article from CBS.MarketWatch.com
    
    
    retzerj@private wrote:
    
    >LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. (CBS.MW) -- All it would take for terrorists to
    cause 
    >billions in damage to world financial markets is some technical 
    >knowledge
    and a 
    >few million dollars to open a rural U.S. bank, tech analysts said this
    week.
    >
    >Total chaos in the financial world with the help of computers, however,
    
    >is
    far 
    >cheaper and technically simpler, said Richard Hunter, a vice president 
    >with
    
    >Gartner Research, who helped the U.S. Naval War College plan a staged
    >cyberattack on the Federal Reserve.
    >
    
    Who needs terrorists, or even computers, to cause widespread economic 
    chaos, business failures, and drops in consumer confidence? We have CEOs
    
    and politicians for that. I hope not one nickel of taxpayer money 
    financed this; anoyone who reads USA Today can easily discover how Enron
    
    and Worldcom did more or less the same thing. As much as I'd like to see
    
    Ken Lay and Bernie Ebbers hauled off to Guantanamo for secret 
    questioning I'll be surprised if they do a day of jail time.
    
    -- 
    Greg Jorgensen
    PDXperts LLC, Portland, Oregon, USA
    



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