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Re: IPv6, C&C (not botnets, coffe and cats)
From: "Paul Ferguson" <fergdawg () netzero net>
Date: Sat, 30 Jun 2007 00:52:08 GMT
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 - -- "Brian Loe" <knobdy () gmail com> wrote:
On 6/29/07, B.K. DeLong <bkdelong () pobox com> wrote:What's next? Turning the electric grid into a WMD? ;)What, you haven't seen Live Free or Die Hard yet?!
As a matter of fact, I just went and saw it this afternoon. :-) And it was highly entertaining. What Brian is referring to is a coordinated cyber attack on the U.S. Infrastructure called a "fire sale" -- as in "Everything must go. And I see that someone has already posted a Wikipedia entry for this term and referenced the movie: [snip] "The term 'fire sale' is used in the 2007 movie Live Free or Die Hard to describe a hypothetical attack by computer hackers on vital networks of the United States government, infrastructure, and economy. The process has three steps: eliminating transportation, erasing financial records, and removing all public utilities. This theoretical process drives the plot of the movie to bring the United States of America to its knees and cause total chaos." [snip] Link: <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fire_sale> Pretty far-fetched, at least insofar as the movie plot, but as more and more critical infrstructure is reachable via Internet connectivity... - - ferg -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP Desktop 9.6.2 (Build 2014) wj8DBQFGhakzq1pz9mNUZTMRAvKGAJ9z1tjRqhuVwmjc5UhNWHYX+hxFYwCg/G67 kx53gQIWrSE3lkwadslqE4k= =Xxn3 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- "Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson Engineering Architecture for the Internet fergdawg(at)netzero.net ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/ _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
Current thread:
- IPv6, C&C (not botnets, coffe and cats) Gadi Evron (Jun 29)
- Re: IPv6, C&C (not botnets, coffe and cats) B.K. DeLong (Jun 29)
- Re: IPv6, C&C (not botnets, coffe and cats) Brian Loe (Jun 29)
- Re: IPv6, C&C (not botnets, coffe and cats) Dude VanWinkle (Jun 29)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- Re: IPv6, C&C (not botnets, coffe and cats) Paul Ferguson (Jun 29)
- Re: IPv6, C&C (not botnets, coffe and cats) Dude VanWinkle (Jun 29)
- Re: IPv6, C&C (not botnets, coffe and cats) Brian Loe (Jun 29)
- Re: IPv6, C&C (not botnets, coffe and cats) Dude VanWinkle (Jun 29)
- Re: IPv6, C&C (not botnets, coffe and cats) B.K. DeLong (Jun 29)