] 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."

Perspective: The first 'e-war'