Article 37570 of alt.security: Crypt Newsletter 37: Debunking the Government Accounting Office's report on hackers, viruses and the US Department of Defense; Whitley Strieber's "Breakthrough," hoax lists and the inept; "American Extremists" and more on the swizzled politics of Lyndon LaRouche; the strange tale of the demonical Los Alamos weapons lab guru; some notes from the NCSA Computer Virus Prevention Conference 1996; Stephen Talbott's "The Future Does Not Compute;" the endless river of H/P/A/C/V mail order and you; more. In the usual places: http://www.soci.niu.edu/~crypt crypt@sun.soci.niu.edu