Re: military strike possible?

[salgak () speakeasy net]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Marcos E. Rodriguez [mailto:mrodrigu () agape-tech com]
> Sent: Wednesday, October 29, 2003 10:15 PM
> To: 'Meritt James', security-basics () securityfocus com
> Subject: Re: military strike possible?
>
> Very interesting.  Government agents are still barely even trained enough in
> information security to track down many of these virus and worm authors.  It
> takes a lot of digging just to find someone, script-kiddies included,  that
> launched a DoS attack against a famous site.

If you're talking about J. Random Special Agent, you're right.  If you're talking about some of our infowarfare teams 
or specialists, whom I assume walk the halls of No Such Agency in Columbia or the Company in McLean, I suspect you're 
VERY wrong. . .

> We are collectively having a hard enough time keeping our own home
> connections and company infrastructures safe.  It is very doubtful that a
> military strike against an actual digital entity could take place.

Tell that to the Iraqis in 1991.  We already did it then.

> Of course, assumptions are always made, anybody can push the button, so to
> speak.  The only thing that's sure about the future is uncertainty.  A
> military strike could be pitted against one lone cracker, a group of
> crackers, etc.

Indeed.  A GBU-24 down the chimney of the particular J.Random Hacker who's been a particular pain to $foo is perhaps 
the ultimate in Denial of Service Attacks. . .



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