Re: US .mil blocking in Japan

[William Warren <hescominsoon () emmanuelcomputerconsulting com>]

On 3/16/2011 12:14 PM, andrew.wallace wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 12:58 PM, Jeff Aitken<jaitken () aitken com>  wrote:
> > What's to be surprised about?
> This isn't the rhetoric of a super power, more like one of a university campus. To think these guys have built a cyber command 
> with war waging capabilities, and allegedly capable of building nuclear worms such as Stuxnet. It strikes me straight away as 
> amateurish to be blocking web sites in able to have enough bandwidth for operational purposes. You would think their war fighting 
> networks, weren't the same ones used for civilian-based web sites on the public internet. It seems there is a conflict here 
> between what they push out to the media as to what their cyber capabilities are, and what the realities are on the ground. In that 
> respect, yes I'm very surprised. --- Andrew
As a former Military Member I can tell you we don't have unlimited 
amounts of bandwidth...especially overseas.  There's been several 
undersea cables damaged or completely knocked offline.  I don't find 
this policy very surprising due to the disaster in Japan.