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Re: Cyber Vigilantes Track Extremist Web Sites, Intelligence Experts Balk at Effort
From: Rich Kulawiec <rsk () gsp org>
Date: Sat, 22 Mar 2008 11:54:25 -0400
On Sat, Mar 22, 2008 at 09:52:22AM -0400, Richard M. Smith wrote:
Just last month alone, Warner was instrumental in helping shut down three Web sites hosted by a Tampa Internet service provider (ISP) that contained text, images and video related to attacks on U.S. troops in Iraq and Afghanistan.
What an abysmally stupid person. Hasn't it occured to this idiot that: - when your adversary is busy blabbing about their thinking, strategy, tactics, etc. that the last thing you want to do is get them to shut up? - that even amateurish spammers work around things like this with ease, so surely any terrorist organization worthy of the designation can do the same? - that if the pros have spotted such a web site, and have concluded that it something other than a fake or a random annoyance, that they have no doubt by now sent a national security letter to the web host and are harvesting the logs, so shutting down the site cuts off a stream of possibly-useful intel? - that a sufficiently-clever adversary could use each one of these incidents to gain counter-intelligence? - that shutting down a web site does absolutely nothing toward getting the material removed from the Internet? - that "getting the material removed from the Internet" isn't an attainable goal, and may not even be a desirable one? <sigh> I suppose not. ---Rsk _______________________________________________ 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.
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- Cyber Vigilantes Track Extremist Web Sites, Intelligence Experts Balk at Effort Richard M. Smith (Mar 22)
- Re: Cyber Vigilantes Track Extremist Web Sites, Intelligence Experts Balk at Effort Rich Kulawiec (Mar 22)