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Re: With great responsibility comes great power.
From: "matthew wollenweber" <mwollenweber () gmail com>
Date: Sun, 24 Jun 2007 22:07:42 -0400
I've never seen anything at all to make me think that the US is even a major player in the cyber warfare spectrum. Maybe top 10, but top 5? I'm not inclined to think so. Dave makes a good point regarding the number of participants at foreign infosec conferences, but I'm not sure that's a good metric. There's no doubt BH/Defcon are flooded with Feds but those conferences aren't about cyber warfare. Hacking, exploitation, etc are all parts of cyber warfare but it's a much larger topic and one that I've never seen the government discuss in any detail in open channels. On 6/24/07, mOses <trklisted () networksamurai org> wrote:
The question is weather that is as scary as this: http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2007/06/04/3_plead_guilty_in_tech_export_case/ Chi Mak who in 2005 was arrested for espionage. He was allegedly sending documents from his job as a defense contractor over to china. The CD's that where found contained propulsion systems for a new submarine and lot more juicy things you can imagine. I wonder how much far forward the Chinese got because of this person and people like him..... Dave Aitel wrote: > > Right now we're in the midst of some sort of weird publicity push from > the US Military regarding cyberwar, which started before the Estonians > got DDoSed last week. Most of the articles point out how China is > beefing up their forces with frankly inane titles such as "China > Cyberware Alert!": > > http://edition.cnn.com/2007/TECH/internet/06/13/china.cyberspace.reut/index.html > http://www.defensetech.org/archives/003548.html > There's a NYT article today too, but they make it impossible to link > to them. > > In March, Stratfor had an article about it as well: > http://www.stratfor.com/products/premium/read_article.php?id=286304 > They concluded: > """ > Ultimately, much about cyberwarfare efforts will remain classified. > Cartwright's comments are more illustrative of a military that is > accustomed to dominating the battle space preparing for a new > offensive in cyberspace. STRATCOM's staff judge advocate -- the > command's legal representative -- likely has advised Cartwright that > his efforts to bring offensive cyberwarfare measures to bear have > reached the point at which they require congressional oversight and > approval -- the only real motivation for Cartwright to share his > command's efforts with the public. > """ > > If you listen to John Arquilla, of the Naval Postgraduate school, he > also mentions China first as the leading integrator of cyberwarfare > into their overall strategy [1]. Oddly he believes there's only a few > dozen master hackers in the world, a number I think is far too small, > but perhaps we have different definitions or just a different circle > of friends. His estimate is that half of the master hackers are > American, a number I would say is irrelevant. You can't judge the > length of a sword by the sharpness of the point. > > My opinion is that any cyberwar waged against the United States would > be one-sided. As Admiral Yamamoto learned the hard way[2], one of the > US Military's defining characteristics is extensive propaganda efforts > to get the opponent to underestimate them. But as a somewhat useful > metric, you can fit the attendees of all the non-US information > security conferences each month into any one US conference. > > -dave > > [1] http://www.worldpoliticsreview.com/podcast.aspx?id=30 - I started > listening to this sure he would be full of it, but it's really quite > good. > [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isoroku_Yamamoto and > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isoroku_Yamamoto%27s_sleeping_giant_quote > <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isoroku_Yamamoto%27s_sleeping_giant_quote> > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > Dailydave mailing list > Dailydave () lists immunitysec com > http://lists.immunitysec.com/mailman/listinfo/dailydave > _______________________________________________ Dailydave mailing list Dailydave () lists immunitysec com http://lists.immunitysec.com/mailman/listinfo/dailydave
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