An online story unfolds... with the first light of...

THE BLOODY DAWN OF INFORMATION WARFARE

Tales of the Hitch Hiker on the Information Highway.

Prologue:
The Corporate Information Wars broke out, in public, in the fourth fiscal quarter of 1997.
The smaller telecom companies (those on the fringe of the "biggies")... little dink companies with less than $10 million in annual revenues...
saw the end-in-site... er SIGHT (all this web _____ is going to my head!!!).

First, it was the "Dime Lady", then the AT&T "One Rate"...then MCI started an "Avalanche" multi-level at 8.9cents/minute. And the end came...with a "Wooden Nickle" rate...too good to be true! Anyway, that terrible "Year of '97" also saw the first "info-terrorist" attacks-- against the now-global, commercial telecommunications infrastructure (satellite uplink facilities in the Philippeans and Thailand were the first "It-targets").

The info-terrorists (I-T's or "It's" as they became known in "digispeak, the language of tomorrow--today!") blamed the predominantly American-owned facilities for the "cultural pollution of the ethnic peoples of the Earth". And in the case of the attack on the Manila DBS site, the IT's flew an explosive-laden light airplane right into the satellite facility's roof! The aircraft's fuselage contained a nearly-empty tank of (explosive) fuel-air mixing ingredients; which Pakastani terrorists had perfected for car/light truck bomb attacks in heavily-monitored urban environments.
Of particular concern to CIA analysts was the information that the suicide pilots of the IT attack were promised that their families would be taken care of-- for three generations-- by income from organized criminal groups in Indonesia, with ties to Taiwanese and Hong Kong criminal tongs.

Meanwhile, in America, the public saw their little "home town" telephone companies end their calendar years with sales blitzes... that were simply unsustainable:
For example, following U.S. SPRINT's lead at 8-cents a minute (6--off-peak) the "independent" phone companies tried (with the money-losing) help of MCI... to provide what the public knew as "NICKLE-a-MINUTE" rates on telephone services! This fiscal fiasco became known as the "Avalanche" approach: Corporate Information Warfare...as MARKET-DENIAL! It was the equivalent of a "Scortched-Earth" policy.

This last-ditch (in some cases corporate grave-digging) pricing reminded some in the telco business-- of the pre-paid telephone card fiascos of 1996.
There, the F.B.I. began investigating companies like "Tender Loving Care" of Detroit (which was rumored to have ripped-off LDDS Worldcom for over $90 million...because of TLC's selling cards for less than actual cost-- just to be competitive.
Convicted drug dealers and money-launderers (like the gang that started Globalcom 2000 in 1994) polluted the low-end phonecard business with a culture that subsequently bled-- UP-- into ordinary long distance telephone services... which, then, didn't last long!
(the joke about pre-paid telephone cards was that the "industry" should have been called the "Pre-paid TAX industry"... as one phonecard "entrepreneur" after another went broke and wrote their "investment" off-- against future income from jobs (if they could get them!)

A year later, as the fighting broke out in the Corporate Information Wars, it became clear how militaristic the telecommunications industry had become: Literally, with the entry of ex-military and even spy satellite code-encryption specialists-- into the "commercial sector"... they brought with them the culture of outright INFORMATION WARFARE (IW), which the U.S. military's Joint Chiefs of Staff formally adopted-- as a strategic warfighting doctrine-- as early as a secret Pentagon study, done after DESERT STORM in 1991 (for more on "IW" refer to Aviation Week and Space Technology magazine issues, dated mid-to-late 1995 and early 1996). Zero's illegitimate father was caught up in CIW: He was "erased" in 1998.
The big guys stepped on him like he was a big bug... the little Zero!

More about this terrible, post-1984 world, coming soon...right here at the new and improved ZERO1 web site!

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