Re: military strike possible?

[SMiller () unimin com]

Who is "we"?  Some of us do not subscribe to the notion of a totalitarian
"nanny state" sucking up over 40% of our earnings and making our lifestyle
decisions for us.   Some of us won't even shut up and pretend.

Scott Miller



                                                                                                                        
   
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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?

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

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