FBI's Reigel tempts fate

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

Begin forwarded message:

From: Robert Alberti <alberti () sanction net>
Date: December 7, 2005 4:55:38 PM EST
To: dave () farber net
Subject: FBI's Reigel tempts fate
Reply-To: alberti () sanction net

In a provocative move, FBI Assistant Director Louis Reigel, who heads
the enforcement agency's Cyber Division, said today that Al Qaeda and
other militant groups do not have the ability to disable power plants,
airports and other "critical infrastructure" through the Internet.

http://today.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx? 
type=domesticNews&storyID=2005-12-07T212751Z_01_MAR774627_RTRUKOC_0_US-S 
ECURITY-CYBERATTACK.xml&archived=False

Or

http://tinyurl.com/7dkzr

Following this statement Mr. Reigel, whose great-great-grandfather was
lost on the Titanic, proceeded to walk under thirteen ladders and past a
black cat.  He then used the cat to break thirteen mirrors.

Seriously - having carried out nuclear plant cyber safety audits, I can
definitively state that Mr. Reigel is wrong.  I don't know what moved
him to make this baseless claim, but in my experience all it would take
to seriously affect a nuclear plant system would be an insider, a
laptop, and a cybercafe.  And the insider would just be a convenience.

You're doing a heckuva job, Mr. Reigel.

Robert Alberti, CISSP, ISSMP                     Sanction, Inc.
alberti () sanction net                 http://www.sanction.net



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