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Re: military strike possible?


From: "J Kallberg" <jk () cyberdefense com>
Date: Wed, 5 Nov 2003 16:17:24 -0500

More the West in general terms - but lately - US is the driving part....

JK





----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Chris Boyd (Admin)" <jesus () leviathan irelands-web ie>
To: "J Kallberg" <jk () cyberdefense com>
Cc: <security-basics () securityfocus com>
Sent: Wednesday, November 05, 2003 3:37 PM
Subject: Re: military strike possible?


On Wed, 29 Oct 2003, J Kallberg wrote:

Are you talking about the US?



I have been waiting for awhile for some rogue Internet nations.
Nations that become safe heavens for everything we want to prevent.
I thought some side line dictators out there would see Internet as a 
revenue stream as they funnel narcotics, money laundering, arms sales, 
terrorist propaganda, etc. 

BUT not yet....

Maybe we have too few Noriegas around...

And if they should up, can the Western World just hook off a nation
from the Internet like cutting oil supply?

JK









----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Raymer, Dan" <DRaymer () webmd net>
To: "'Meritt James'" <meritt_james () bah com>; <security-basics () securityfocus com>
Sent: Tuesday, October 28, 2003 4:08 PM
Subject: RE: military strike possible?


considering that intelligence can't even tell a Chinese embassy from a
warehouse or where senior leadership is having a meeting, how do they expect
to hit a bunch of teenage script kiddies (or heavens forbid, REAL crackers)
coordinating an attack via IRC?

-----Original Message-----
From: Meritt James [mailto:meritt_james () bah com]
Sent: Tuesday, October 28, 2003 11:11 AM
To: 'security-basics () securityfocus com'
Subject: military strike possible?


 
Going from the premptive strike philosophy demonstrated in Mideastern
countries, what are your thoughts on a military strike against (as yet
unseen) "cyberterrorists" a'la
http://www.msnbc.com/news/985295.asp?0si=- if there were extranational
agents tampering with identified components of the infrastructure to
the extent that they were risking human life?







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