re: U.S. Cyber Counter Attack: Bomb 'Em One Way or The Other

[SDALAN04 () smumn edu]

Sorry here goes my sarcasm: This little excerpt comes off as stating: Well cyberpunks are a bunch of wankers, grandpa 
wanker said its ok to wank, so we'll just show those wankers how we American wankers really wank.

Sorta like in the movie Wargame, sounds to me like we're just playing ourselves!

Wank on wankers!

 
On Thursday, February 08, 2007  1:07 PM, Fergie wrote:
> Date: Thu, 8 Feb 2007 19:07:09 GMT
> From: Fergie
> To: funsec () linuxbox org
> Subject: [funsec] U.S. Cyber Counter Attack: Bomb 'Em One Way or The Other
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> The operative word in the second paragraph below is "known"...
>
> Via NetworkWorld.
>
> [snip]
>
> If the United States found itself under a major cyberattack aimed at
> undermining the nation's critical information infrastructure, the
> Department of Defense is prepared, based on the authority of the president,
> to launch a cyber counterattack or an actual bombing of an attack source.
>
> The primary group responsible for analyzing the need for any cyber
> counterstrike is the National Cyber Response Coordination Group (NCRCG).
> The three key members of the NCRCG, who hail from the US-CERT
> computer-readiness team, the Department of Justice and the Defense
> Department, this week described how they would seek to coordinate a
> national response in the event of a major cyber-event from a known
> attacker.
>
> [snip]
>
> More:
> http://www.networkworld.com/news/2007/020807-rsa-cyber-attacks.html
>
> Enjoy,
>
> - - ferg
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