Re: DHS and NSA getting married?

[Matthew Palmer <mpalmer () hezmatt org>]

On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 11:32:38AM -0400, Christopher Morrow wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 11:08 AM, Steven Bellovin <smb () cs columbia edu> wrote:
>
> >        In the words of a former Justice Department official involved with critical infrastructure protection, ?I 
> > have seen too many situations where government officials claimed a high degree of confidence as to the source, 
> > intent, and scope of an attack, and it turned out they were wrong on every aspect of it. That is, they were often 
> > wrong, but never in doubt.?
>
> this happens with non-cyber things as well... all the time. Point
> being: "cyber-attack" follows down the path of 'send the people that
> deal with "attacks" to deal with this'.

For non-cyber things, that would be "the police" almost every time.  We
don't send a squad of marines out after every mugger (although it'd have an
interesting deterrent effect...)

- Matt