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Re: White House to Propose System for Wide Monitoring of Internet (fwd)
From: "Stephen Sprunk" <ssprunk () cisco com>
Date: Mon, 23 Dec 2002 13:19:38 -0600
Thus spake <Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu>
On Mon, 23 Dec 2002 13:26:16 EST, batz said:The interjurisdictional administrative hell makes it more cost effective to just lock down your network than to re-enact The Cuckoos Egg.Unfortunately, this is (or should be) part of the threat model. What makes you think that J Random Cyberterrorist is any stupider than the guys Stoll was chasing?
Whether they're smart or dumb is moot when there's 100+ human attacks (not [D]DoS) against your network every day, plus tens of thousands of worms. It's simply not possible to respond in any meaningful way. Even if you could track down each attacker, they are often in countries that don't consider hacking a crime and won't grant extradition. This is why many organizations (eg .MIL) try to filter non-US addresses. S
Current thread:
- Re: White House to Propose System for Wide Monitoring of Internet (fwd), (continued)
- Re: White House to Propose System for Wide Monitoring of Internet (fwd) batz (Dec 20)
- Re: White House to Propose System for Wide Monitoring of Internet (fwd) Christopher L. Morrow (Dec 20)
- Re: White House to Propose System for Wide Monitoring of Internet(fwd) Richard Irving (Dec 20)
- Re: White House to Propose System for Wide Monitoring of Internet (fwd) batz (Dec 20)
- Re: White House to Propose System for Wide Monitoring of Internet (fwd) Christopher L. Morrow (Dec 20)
- Re: White House to Propose System for Wide Monitoring of Internet (fwd) batz (Dec 23)
- Re: White House to Propose System for Wide Monitoring of Internet (fwd) Sean Donelan (Dec 22)
- Re: White House to Propose System for Wide Monitoring of Internet (fwd) Haesu (Dec 22)
- Re: White House to Propose System for Wide Monitoring of Internet (fwd) batz (Dec 23)
- Re: White House to Propose System for Wide Monitoring of Internet (fwd) Valdis . Kletnieks (Dec 23)
- Re: White House to Propose System for Wide Monitoring of Internet (fwd) Stephen Sprunk (Dec 23)
- Re: White House to Propose System for Wide Monitoring of Internet (fwd) batz (Dec 23)
- Re: White House to Propose System for Wide Monitoring of Internet (fwd) Richard Forno (Dec 23)
- Whoops! (re: WH network monitoring plan response) Richard Forno (Dec 24)
- Re: Whoops! (re: WH network monitoring plan response) Valdis . Kletnieks (Dec 24)
- Re: Whoops! (re: WH network monitoring plan response) Marshall Eubanks (Dec 24)
- Re: White House to Propose System for Wide Monitoring of Internet (fwd) Christopher L. Morrow (Dec 20)
- Acceptable Losses (was Re: Whoops! (re: WH network monitoring plan response)) Sean Donelan (Dec 24)
- Re: White House to Propose System for Wide Monitoring of Internet (fwd) batz (Dec 20)
- RE: White House to Propose System for Wide Monitoring of Internet(fwd) err, make that (fud) Al Rowland (Dec 24)
- Re: White House to Propose System for Wide Monitoring of Internet Sean Donelan (Dec 20)