Re: Expert slams outlandish hacker claims

[InfoSec News <isn () c4i org>]

Forwarded from: Lance Spitzner <lance () honeynet org>

On Mon, 30 Jun 2003, InfoSec News wrote:

> But Barrett, technical director at Information Risk Management,
> questioned how any hacker could own 600 computers at any one time.
>
>  From his experience working with the police, he said that hackers
> typically control no more than 12 systems at any time.
>
> "The sheer mechanics of 600 computers - no. How can you control 600
> computers?" he said.

*sigh*

       http://www.honeynet.org/scans/scan27/

lance



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