Re: NYT covers China cyberthreat

[Miles Fidelman <mfidelman () meetinghouse net>]

Scott Weeks wrote:
> --- calin.chiorean () secdisk net wrote:
>
> > > You seem "upset" that they are using M$ only(target and
> > > source).
> I'm not upset.  I'm pointing out what Steven Bellovin said
> in just a few words: "This strongly suggests that it's not
> their A-team..."
>
> This is a technical mailing list where cutting edge stuff
> is discussed.  The compromise was not using cutting edge
> stuff and, so, is a big <yawn> for this list.

Not to be pedantic, but I thought the list was about network operations 
- and
as much (or more) about practice, than about "cutting edge stuff." (Well
maybe a little pedantic.)

From an operational point of view, unless I'm an exceptionally high-value
target, I'm more likely to be threatened by the B-team (or C-team), than 
the
A-team (recognizing, of course, that what the A-team is doing today, is 
what the
script kiddies will be doing tomorrow).

Miles Fidelman



--
In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice.
In practice, there is.   .... Yogi Berra