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Re: Bad Advice: U.S. Urged to Go On Offense in Cyber War
From: "Rob, grandpa of Ryan, Trevor, Devon & Hannah" <rMslade () shaw ca>
Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2008 07:43:57 -0800
Date sent: Mon, 29 Sep 2008 21:24:18 -0700 From: Paul Ferguson <fergdawgster () gmail com>
The United States needs to do more to develop an offensive cyberwar capability rather than just focus on defending its networks from attack, says the chairman of the House cybersecurity subcommittee.
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2008/sep/29/us-urged-to-go-on-offense-i n-cyberwar/
So, we're heading for Mutually Assured DDoS? (Heck, why should they have learned anything in twenty years? I remember the first call for proposals on how to use viruses as offensive weapons--as if they weren't offensive enough. Met with deafening silence from the AV research community. Was later appalled to find that at least three $50K contracts were let for first stage proposals, and at least one got $500K to go to the seccond stage. These were, pretty much by definition, people who didn't know what they were talking about.) ====================== (quote inserted randomly by Pegasus Mailer) rslade () vcn bc ca slade () victoria tc ca rslade () computercrime org We peer so suspiciously at each other that we cannot see that we Canadians are standing on a mountaintop of human wealth, freedom and privilege. - Pierre Elliott Trudeau, Dec. 31, 1980 victoria.tc.ca/techrev/rms.htm blogs.securiteam.com/index.php/archives/author/p1/ _______________________________________________ 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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- Bad Advice: U.S. Urged to Go On Offense in Cyber War Paul Ferguson (Sep 29)
- Re: Bad Advice: U.S. Urged to Go On Offense in Cyber War Rob, grandpa of Ryan, Trevor, Devon & Hannah (Sep 30)