FC: An irritated Fidel Castro denies he's planning a "cyberattack"

From: Declan McCullagh (declanat_private)
Date: Thu Jun 14 2001 - 21:02:17 PDT

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    The strange thing is that out of the reporters writing about the annual 
    World Threat Assessment hearing in February, nobody else picked up on those 
    truly weird comments about Castro being a cyberthreat. (Perhaps they lack 
    the same appreciation for the bizarre.) You can see my article at the time 
    here:
    http://www.politechbot.com/p-01713.html
    
    Transcript:
    http://www.cluebot.com/article.pl?sid=01/02/08/1638232
    
    -Declan
    
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    http://dailynews.yahoo.com/htx/ap/20010614/wl/cuba_us_cyberattacks_1.html
    Castro Denounces Cyberattack Concerns
    Thursday June 14 3:38 PM ET
    
    HAVANA (AP) - An irritated Fidel Castro on Thursday dismissed concerns 
    about Cuban cyberterrorism against the United States as ``craziness,'' 
    saying his country doesn't have the technology to launch such attacks even 
    if it wanted to. U.S. officials who believe that Cuba could and would 
    attack the country's computer networks are ``orphans, and bereft of 
    ideas,'' Castro said in a speech shown on state television. He called the 
    United States ``an empire that only knows lies.''
    ...
    
    
    
    
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