[108479] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: cnn.com - Homeland Security seeks cyber counterattack system
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (William Hamilton)
Mon Oct 6 07:39:09 2008
In-Reply-To: <20081005162019.135541F8056@smtp01.swalter.com>
Date: Mon, 6 Oct 2008 12:39:04 +0100 (BST)
From: "William Hamilton" <bill@edisys.co.uk>
To: nanog@nanog.org
Reply-To: bill@edisys.co.uk
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
> The system "would literally, like an anti-aircraft weapon, shoot down an
> attack before it hits its target," he said. "And that's what we call
> Einstein 3.0."
Oh dear.
I cringe whenever I read such a massacre of correct English like this.
If it's going to "literally" shot down an attack like an AA weapon, are
they planning on physically launching projectiles at compromised machines
across the world and destroying them?
That really *would* be something worth seeing.
B
