Re: NYT covers China cyberthreat

[Suresh Ramasubramanian <ops.lists () gmail com>]

And so their bush league by itself was responsible for all the penetrations
that mandiant says they did?  Which shows that they don't have to be
particularly smart, just a bit smarter than their average spear phish or
other attack's victim.

On Friday, February 22, 2013, Jack Bates wrote:

> On 2/21/2013 12:17 PM, Scott Weeks wrote:
>
> > 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..."
> The A-team doesn't get caught and detailed. The purpose of the other teams
> is to detect easy targets, handle easy jobs, and create lots of noise for
> the A-team to hide in. Hacking has always had a lot in common with magic.
> Misdirection is a useful tool.
>
> Jack

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