Not long ago, I had dinner with a former military officer who participated in information warfare "what-if" exercises that the Pentagon and the White House ran in the late 1990s.

"If Saddam ever attacks the U.S. through the Internet and takes out a telecommunications firm, we'll be in a state of war," my dinner companion told me. "All bets are off. The Fourth Amendment is on hold. If EarthLink is attacked, the Army could show up and seize control of their servers."
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Interesting article, but the links are even more interesting.

] Interesting article, but the links are even more interesting.

] Not long ago, I had dinner with a former military officer
] who participated in information warfare "what-if"
] exercises that the Pentagon and the White House ran in
] the late 1990s.
]
] "If Saddam ever attacks the U.S. through the Internet and
] takes out a telecommunications firm, we'll be in a state
] of war," my dinner companion told me. "All bets are off.
] The Fourth Amendment is on hold. If EarthLink is
] attacked, the Army could show up and seize control of
] their servers."

The links kicked my ass. The Air force lab projects, like the geo-whatever... oh fuck I'm tired. Go look though. Pretty SOM visualization, and things of that nature.

] The Supreme Court has always held that what is reasonable
] depends on context. If you're in a situation where people
] are being killed and you're trying to save lives, you can
] be more intrusive...Protecting the state is a higher
] duty. To say otherwise is to sacrifice the ends to the
] means. If you're unwilling in times of crisis to depart
] from the law, and you lose your freedom, you've done no
] service to anyone.