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Re: WW: Bruce Schneier on why security can't work
From: Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu
Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2013 20:39:20 -0400
On Thu, 14 Mar 2013 19:56:51 -0400, Miles Fidelman said:
I think that's six words - twice as scary. I dunno how to fix it either ("when in trouble, when in doubt, run in circles, scream and shout?")
I don't think script kiddies with gene sequencers will manage to kill us with Ebola, for the same reason that script kiddies haven't managed to kill the Internet - by the time they figure out how to not kill themselves with the Ebola, they usually figure out that it's a losing proposition (consider the number of nation states that *could* deploy biological weapons compared to the number that actually have). Anybody seriously thing the RBN couldn't kill the Internet if they really wanted to? Why don't they? Because they can't monetize a dead Internet. Having said that, we probably *will* see a number of incidents where the biohazard cleanup crews have to clean up a local mess...
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- Re: WW: Bruce Schneier on why security can't work Suresh Ramasubramanian (Mar 14)
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- Re: WW: Bruce Schneier on why security can't work Owen DeLong (Mar 15)