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Warfare all over
From: mike.patterson at unb.ca (Mike Patterson)
Date: Tue, 30 Dec 2008 19:51:11 -0500
daniel.schatz at hush.com wrote on 12/17/08 9:17 AM:
Hi, i just read the 'Info War' article in winter edition of ISC2 mag and couldnt help to wonder why 'Warfare' is used so inflationary recently. Most of it doesnt even make sense - Personal Information Warfare?
Without wanting to seem too insulting, I think it's because a lot of hardcore techies like to think of what they do as being like war, even though the association is loose at best. We call what we do as being in the trenches, we like reading Sun Tzu and trying to apply his aphorisms to what we do, and so on. We call this "studying military history" even though it's barely even a surface understanding of military matters and isn't history at all. I don't understand why this is; large numbers of us really have served in an armed force somewhere and presumably therefore understand that there's a large gulf between literally being in a trench and shooting at people, and securing a server against 10,000 Romanian cable modem zombie machines. Maybe we need new analogies. Don't ask me what though. I prefer to do my thinking in more straightforward terms, and when I need to study history in order to help secure my machines, I study the history of security, not a battle fought by some obscure Greek general. Mike -- . . . A phrase that expresses a notion so beautiful that the mind can't even hope to wrap itself around it. The phrase is: "My brother-in-law, the bar owner." -J.D. Baldwin, monk
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