RE: military strike possible?

["Raymer, Dan" <DRaymer () webmd net>]

considering that intelligence can't even tell a Chinese embassy from a
warehouse or where senior leadership is having a meeting, how do they expect
to hit a bunch of teenage script kiddies (or heavens forbid, REAL crackers)
coordinating an attack via IRC?

-----Original Message-----
From: Meritt James [mailto:meritt_james () bah com]
Sent: Tuesday, October 28, 2003 11:11 AM
To: 'security-basics () securityfocus com'
Subject: military strike possible?


 
Going from the premptive strike philosophy demonstrated in Mideastern
countries, what are your thoughts on a military strike against (as yet
unseen) "cyberterrorists" a'la
http://www.msnbc.com/news/985295.asp?0si=- if there were extranational
agents tampering with identified components of the infrastructure to
the extent that they were risking human life?

-- 
James W. Meritt CISSP, CISA
Booz | Allen | Hamilton
phone: (410) 684-6566

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