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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
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<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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