1. The Bush administration in US has formulated an offensive cyber attack strategy declared through its National Security Presidential Directive 16. Details on this at http://www.fas.org/irp/offdocs/nspd/

2. Major news agencies across the world carried the details. Clippings from The Hindu. "...The U.S. President, George W. Bush, has signed a secret directive ordering his administration to develop a national-level guidance for determining when and how America should launch cyber attacks against `enemy' computer networks, officials said... ...military planners imagine soldiers at computer terminals silently invading foreign networks to shut down radars, disable electrical facilities and disrupt phone services..." News from PTI at http://www.hinduonnet.com/2003/02/08/stories/2003020801891400.htm

3. Against this backdrop, Kerala State Electricity Board is going ahead with its Microsoft-platform based implementation and Local Self Govt Dept in Kerala is wedded to Microsoft-based package from Information Kerala Mission.

What are these middlemen upto ? Working for US security ? Masking as a recruiting agency for IT professionals ?

Let's watch them a little more closely....

CK Raju, Thrissur --------------- Communication will no longer be a means for any revolution, they may the means for an colonial offensive.

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