Re: military strike possible?

["Charles Smith" <softwar () softwar net>]

In ref. to the bombing of the PRC embassy in Belgrade...

Isn't it amazing that the USAF B-2 put only two bombs into the embassy - one
in the computer center and one into the communications center.  Its also
amazing that the two so called reporters that were killed were never seen on
the job as journalists.

In ref. to this entire thread - e.g. would you start WWIII just because
someone hacked the FAA or something similar...

I find it amazing the guy who started this thread is:

James W. Meritt CISSP, CISA
Booz | Allen | Hamilton
phone: (410) 684-6566

Last time I talked to Booz Allen - it was to interview former NSA Director
Adm. McConnell.  I put some of the interview online at
http://www.softwar.net/mcc.html

Perhaps Mr. Meritt needs to ask some of the former NSA employees working at
Booz Allen on the subject line and report back to us.

Charlie Smith
Softwar
----- Original Message -----
From: Ranjeet Shetye <ranjeet.shetye2 () zultys com>
To: Raymer, Dan <DRaymer () webmd net>
Cc: 'Meritt James' <meritt_james () bah com>;
<security-basics () securityfocus com>
Sent: Wednesday, October 29, 2003 7:29 PM
Subject: RE: military strike possible?


> 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?
> --
>
> Ranjeet Shetye
> Senior Software Engineer
> Zultys Technologies
> Ranjeet dot Shetye2 at Zultys dot com
> http://www.zultys.com/
>
> The views, opinions, and judgements expressed in this message are solely
> those of the author. The message contents have not been reviewed or
> approved by Zultys.
>
>
>
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
> Forum Systems PRESIDIO: PGP / XML GATEWAY APPLIANCE
> The Presidio integrates PGP data encryption and XML Web Services security
to
> simplify the management and deployment of PGP and reduce overall PGP costs
> by up to 80%.
> FREE WHITEPAPER & 30 Day Trial -
> http://www.securityfocus.com/sponsor/ForumSystems_security-basics_031027
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
--


---------------------------------------------------------------------------
Forum Systems PRESIDIO: PGP / XML GATEWAY APPLIANCE
The Presidio integrates PGP data encryption and XML Web Services security to 
simplify the management and deployment of PGP and reduce overall PGP costs 
by up to 80%.
FREE WHITEPAPER & 30 Day Trial - 
http://www.securityfocus.com/sponsor/ForumSystems_security-basics_031027 
----------------------------------------------------------------------------