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Re: Opinion on Israeli espionage plot

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Richard Stiennon)
Mon Jun 6 15:38:54 2005

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Date: Sat, 04 Jun 2005 13:56:25 -0600
To: Hagai Bar-El <info@hbarel.com>, cryptography@metzdowd.com
From: Richard Stiennon <richard@stiennon.com>
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While I completely agree that the TH case in Israel must represent the "tip 
of the iceberg" and for sure there will be similar cases in Europe and the 
US (have already been).  But it is pretty useless to blow this particular 
horn.    I am sure many Israeli firms are scanning their machines to look 
for the presence of Trojans, but apparently the impact in the US has been 
close to zero.    Not until security incidents actually occur do most 
companies respond.  So just wait....

-Stiennon
  www.threatchaos.com



At 03:58 AM 6/4/2005, Hagai Bar-El wrote:
>List,
>
>In the following link is an opinion about the espionage act discovered in 
>Israel a week ago.
>In short: This case is probably one of dozens, but the only one that was 
>discovered probably due to three non-typical mistakes that were done.
>
>http://www.hbarel.com/Blog/entry0004.html
>
>Hagai.
>
>---
>Hagai Bar-El - Information Security Analyst
>T/F: 972-8-9354152 Web: www.hbarel.com
>
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