FW: People on Google Security blog don't understand cyber terrorism

["Murda" <murdamcloud () bigpond com>]

Sorry, Tamer, I think you may have misunderstood this phrase:
> > I got a nasty note from said sysadmin

I’m assuming that David intended for this to mean ‘the sysadmin in question
or the aforementioned sysadmin,’. It doesn’t mean that the sysadmin’s name
was Said(or Saeed or any permutation thereof).

‘It appears that there has been a miscomprehension of said word,’ would be
an example of its usage in this context.

Incidentally(and coincidentally) my response would be the same as David’s no
matter what the sysadmin’s name was…even if he was a Dick. The chain email
has the hallmarks of a hoax.



From: Tamer Ghanima [mailto:ghonim () hotmail com] 
Sent: Thursday, July 29, 2010 12:56 PM
To: gillettdavid () fhda edu; murdamcloud () bigpond com;
security-basics () securityfocus com
Subject: RE: People on Google Security blog don't understand cyber terrorism


you sure it wasn't because his name was "Said", it is pretty interesting how
Security experts might slip into exact same IT attitudes but only filter
their perception quite sure that if the admin name was John, David or
Dick... your only responce would be mate its a hoax.

yours,Truly:
 
Tamer Ghanima
 



  
> From: gillettdavid () fhda edu
> To: murdamcloud () bigpond com; security-basics () securityfocus com
> Subject: RE: People on Google Security blog don't understand cyber
terrorism
> Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2010 09:57:00 -0700
>
> Murda McCloud wrote:
>
> > I doubt that people are 'terrorised' in quite the same manner about
> 'attacks' that take place via communication or power networks(the
> > internet/phone/grid) etc as they are by a bomb going off when you are
> trying to get on a bus or a train.
>
> A few years ago, an aunt of mine forwarded an email she had received from
> her local sysadmin. It was one of those bogus "virus warning" email chain
> letters ("please warn everyone you know") that were once almost common.
> He had left the Cc: list visible, so I replied to All explaining how and
> why the "warning" lacked any shred of credibility.
> In short order, I got a nasty note from said sysadmin, accusing me of
> sabotaging his relationship with his user community. I responded that if
> the best thing he could tell them boiled down to "you should be afraid to
> use email", he had much bigger problems than me.
>
> That email chain letter's effect, apparently by design, was to spread fear
> amongst users, and in that gentler time, I might have been willing to
> consider it a species of "terrorism". But that was at a time when the use
> of the word did NOT constitute justification for massive surveillance,
> "rendition, torture, and the other excesses of the past decade. Now the
> word "terrorism" is used to stampede people into limitless spending on all
> manner of "security theater" measures -- one could argue without too much
> exaggeration that the deliberate misapplication of the label is itself a
> form of terrorism.
>
> > Now please don't get us started on Cyber 'Warriors'.
>
> Amen!
>
> David Gillett, CISSP
>
>
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