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Re: cnn.com - Homeland Security seeks cyber counterattack system (Einstein 3.0)
From: Jean-François Mezei <jfmezei () vaxination ca>
Date: Sun, 05 Oct 2008 15:17:18 -0400
I have a big problem with politicians making technical decisions that may look good at the politicial level but make no sense at the technical level. "fighting back" implies that your own facilities will be busy pinging thousands of bots to death around the world. Yeah, smart. Looks good during a politician's speech, but in reality, what good does "fighting back" do when the remote computers won't be hurt by it ? I think the speech would have far more credibility if the politician had used terms such as "dynamic protection against attacks" where the network would reconfigure itself dynamically to block attacks etc etc.
Current thread:
- cnn.com - Homeland Security seeks cyber counterattack system (Einstein 3.0) Tony Patti (Oct 05)
- Re: cnn.com - Homeland Security seeks cyber counterattack system (Einstein 3.0) Joel Jaeggli (Oct 05)
- RE: cnn.com - Homeland Security seeks cyber counterattack system(Einstein 3.0) Howard C. Berkowitz (Oct 05)
- Fwd: cnn.com - Homeland Security seeks cyber counterattack system (Einstein 3.0) n3td3v (Oct 05)
- Re: cnn.com - Homeland Security seeks cyber counterattack system (Einstein 3.0) jim deleskie (Oct 05)
- Re: cnn.com - Homeland Security seeks cyber counterattack system (Einstein 3.0) Jean-François Mezei (Oct 05)
- Re: cnn.com - Homeland Security seeks cyber counterattack system (Einstein 3.0) Laurence F. Sheldon, Jr. (Oct 05)
- Re: cnn.com - Homeland Security seeks cyber counterattack system (Einstein 3.0) jim deleskie (Oct 05)
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- Re: cnn.com - Homeland Security seeks cyber counterattack system (Einstein 3.0) Joel Jaeggli (Oct 05)
- Re: Fwd: cnn.com - Homeland Security seeks cyber counterattack system (Einstein 3.0) Valdis . Kletnieks (Oct 06)
- RE: Fwd: cnn.com - Homeland Security seeks cyber counterattack system(Einstein 3.0) Buhrmaster, Gary (Oct 06)
- RE: Fwd: cnn.com - Homeland Security seeks cyber counterattack system(Einstein 3.0) Sean Donelan (Oct 07)
- Re: Fwd: cnn.com - Homeland Security seeks cyber counterattack system(Einstein 3.0) J. Oquendo (Oct 07)
- Re: Fwd: cnn.com - Homeland Security seeks cyber counterattack system(Einstein 3.0) Valdis . Kletnieks (Oct 07)
- Re: Fwd: cnn.com - Homeland Security seeks cyber counterattack system(Einstein 3.0) Sean Donelan (Oct 07)
- Re: Fwd: cnn.com - Homeland Security seeks cyber counterattack system(Einstein 3.0) Steven M. Bellovin (Oct 07)
- Re: Fwd: cnn.com - Homeland Security seeks cyber counterattack system(Einstein 3.0) Valdis . Kletnieks (Oct 07)