Forwarded from: Brian Reilly <reillybgeorgetown.edu>

> Forwarded from: Robert G. Ferrell <rgferrelldirecway.com>
>
> At 03:47 AM 1/9/03 -0600, InfoSec News wrote:
>
> > Has this been determined to be true or a hoax?
>
> >> D.C. based security consultant Charles Masford cites in the WWN
> >> report that his high level sources in the "FBI anti-cyberterror task
> >> force" have pieced together 400 sources, including debriefings from
> >> Al Qaeda fighters, raids in Europe, and intercepted voice and e-mail
> >> communications, and have learned that this attack will happen at
> >> 11:11AM on 1.11.03!
>
> Has anyone on ISN ever heard of Mr. Masford? I haven't been able to
> find any references to him on the Web, and no one in the DC area
> with whom I've spoken knows anything about him. I'm beginning to
> believe he may be related to "Captain Tuttle."

Perhaps Mr. Masford is a colleague of Arnold Yabenson, president of
the Washington-based consumer group National CyberCrime Prevention
Foundation (NCPF), who thankfully warned us in another Weekly World
News *exclusive* from May 2000 that "Hackers can make your PC explode"
(see: http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/archive/10177.html ).

/brian

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