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Re: Bin Laden Associate Warns of Cyberattack
From: "David Howe" <DaveHowe () gmx co uk>
Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2002 16:56:16 -0000
at Tuesday, November 19, 2002 3:17 PM, sgorman1 () gmu edu <sgorman1 () gmu edu> was seen to say:
It is a great example of how well Al-Quedah manipulates the media. There are more ways to wreak havoc than script kiddies and DOS attacks.
Indeed so, but none of them require "millions of muslims" in fact, any decent attack would be deliberately limited to one or two attackers so as not to kick up a noticable fuss at the server until the damage is done - particularly as they would want the damage not to be found for weeks or months (or the site would simply restore from backup - its not as if government sites are usually that dynamic) if they really wanted to stage an attack by "millions of muslims" they would be better off giving them clubs and telling them where the hosting for xxx.gov is in the real world - smashing the server will be much easier and require less technical knowhow than trying to do lasting damage by hacking the thing.
Current thread:
- Bin Laden Associate Warns of Cyberattack sgorman1 (Nov 18)
- RE: Bin Laden Associate Warns of Cyberattack Jim Popovitch (Nov 18)
- Re: Bin Laden Associate Warns of Cyberattack Dan Hollis (Nov 18)
- Re: Bin Laden Associate Warns of Cyberattack Stephen J. Wilcox (Nov 19)
- Re: Bin Laden Associate Warns of Cyberattack David Howe (Nov 19)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- Re: Bin Laden Associate Warns of Cyberattack sgorman1 (Nov 19)
- Re: Bin Laden Associate Warns of Cyberattack David Howe (Nov 19)
- Re: Bin Laden Associate Warns of Cyberattack Michael . Dillon (Nov 19)
- Re: Bin Laden Associate Warns of Cyberattack Stephen Sprunk (Nov 19)
- Re: Bin Laden Associate Warns of Cyberattack Kurt Erik Lindqvist (Nov 20)
- Re: Cyberattack FUD William Waites (Nov 20)
- Re: Cyberattack FUD Kurt Erik Lindqvist (Nov 20)
- Re: Cyberattack FUD Rajendra G. Kulkarni (Nov 20)
- Re: Cyberattack FUD Barry Shein (Nov 21)
- Re: Cyberattack FUD Vadim Antonov (Nov 21)
- Re: Cyberattack FUD David Schwartz (Nov 21)
- Re: Cyberattack FUD Vadim Antonov (Nov 22)
- Re: Bin Laden Associate Warns of Cyberattack Stephen Sprunk (Nov 19)