RE: military strike possible?

[Ranjeet Shetye <ranjeet.shetye2 () zultys com>]

On Tue, 2003-10-28 at 13:08, Raymer, Dan wrote:
> 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?

word on the streets was that the Chinese embassy was actively helping
the Yugoslavs track American planes and co-ordinate attacks on American
planes by adapting Russian technology. Remember the stealth fighter
F-117A that was lost initially ? After the Chinese embassy was
"counselled out", no more American F-117A were lost.

http://www.fair.org/activism/embassy-bombing.html

as i said, no solid proof, just word on the streets.

> -----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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Ranjeet Shetye
Senior Software Engineer
Zultys Technologies
Ranjeet dot Shetye2 at Zultys dot com
http://www.zultys.com/
 
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