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Economist's take on cyberwar
From: "Rob, grandpa of Ryan, Trevor, Devon & Hannah" <rMslade () shaw ca>
Date: Sun, 4 Jul 2010 14:54:04 -0800
The article: http://www.economist.com/node/16478792 Could possibly have predicted the quality from the flashy cover: http://media.economist.com/images/images- magazine/2010/27/ld/201027ldp001.jpg Basically, I have to agree with the review in slashdot: http://news.slashdot.org/submission/1274612/Behind-Cyberwar-FUD It's FUD, lots of random tech with limited analysis, and wimpy "we should all be nice and play well with others" recommendations. "What will cyberwar look like? In a new book Richard Clarke, a former White House staffer in charge of counter-terrorism and cyber-security, envisages a catastrophic breakdown within 15 minutes. Computer bugs bring down military e- mail systems; oil refineries and pipelines explode; air-traffic-control systems collapse; freight and metro trains derail; financial data are scrambled; the electrical grid goes down in the eastern United States; orbiting satellites spin out of control. Society soon breaks down as food becomes scarce and money runs out. Worst of all, the identity of the attacker may remain a mystery." Sounds like a normal day at the office, in IT ... ====================== (quote inserted randomly by Pegasus Mailer) rslade () vcn bc ca slade () victoria tc ca rslade () computercrime org `That is not it at all,/That is not what I meant, at all.' `The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock,' T. S. Eliot victoria.tc.ca/techrev/rms.htm blog.isc2.org/isc2_blog/slade/index.html http://blogs.securiteam.com/index.php/archives/author/p1/ http://www.infosecbc.org/links http://twitter.com/rslade _______________________________________________ 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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