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Fwd: With great responsibility comes great power.
From: "matthew wollenweber" <mwollenweber () gmail com>
Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2007 19:20:34 -0400
Actually yes I'm fairly up to date on the US and cyber warfare. I'm former NSA and currently a contractor in the Baltimore/Washington area. I've been on 3 red teams including for the government. No, I can't support anything in this forum but neither can anyone else that really knows anything at all about this topic. If you work at all with the DoD or the IC you'd understand how implausible it is to simply take private companies into the cyber warfare spectrum. Aside from the government being slow and cautious there are major legal hurdles in the way. So thanks for the thought, but it's not really applicable under current US law and procedures. On 6/25/07, John Smith <genericjohnsmith () gmail com> wrote:
On Jun 25, 2007, at 2:07 AM, matthew wollenweber wrote: > I've never seen anything at all to make me think that the US is > even a major player in the cyber warfare spectrum. Maybe top 10, > but top 5? I'm not inclined to think so. > you say this because...you have security clearances from 4-9 governments in addition to the US, and are familiar with all national attack capabilities? Sheesh, talk about talking out your butt! I'm curious who you think the top 5 are even. Falcor hit it on the head. Even though there are a bunch of small red teams scattered about the govt, if the US wanted to get serious, how many contractors could they pull in on the drop of a hat? How many private companies like Dave's with known offensive capability would they simply make new NDA contracts for? And since you probably think that countries having cyber criminals makes them an effective power, keep in mind that if you're talking general vigilantism, there will always be plenty of that on both sides, and it will be largely wasted since it won't be channeled to any central points of control for more effective utilization. John
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