Re: can someone please try and explain to me....

[T Biehn <tbiehn () gmail com>]

At first I was confused that a whitehat was decrying fear-mongering.
Then I realized; Whitehats love fear mongering but with some finesse,
lest anyone become fearful enough to actually create/implement secure
software/systems.

On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 1:57 PM, <Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu> wrote:
> On Thu, 09 Jul 2009 13:06:58 EDT, J Michael Graham said:
> > Man, I LOVE sayin it. I say it all the time. Boss comes in talking
> > about budget cuts, I just stand up shouting "CYBERWAR!!" and he backs
> > out the doorway. Mission accomplished.
>
> I find completing sentences with "As prophesied in ancient scripture" does
> that to bosses too.
>
> The problem is that most of what we've seen has been more properly described
> as 'cyber-espionage' or 'cyber-border-skirmish'.  But most journalist's eyes
> glaze over if there's more than 7-8 letters in the word, so we're stuck with
> them using 'cyberwar'.
>
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