[108488] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: cnn.com - Homeland Security seeks cyber counterattack system
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Jean-Fran=E7ois_Mez)
Mon Oct 6 15:24:42 2008
Date: Mon, 06 Oct 2008 15:24:22 -0400
From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Jean-Fran=E7ois_Mezei?= <jfmezei@vaxination.ca>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <33939.83.104.210.137.1223293144.squirrel@shiva.edisys.co.uk>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
William Hamilton wrote:
> 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?
The politician saw the episode of Star Trek where "7 of 9" typed in a
few computer commands which caused some massive electrical jolt to be
emitted by the bad dude's keyboard a few light years away, knocking him
out. So they immediately think that they can do the same to incapacitate
those making attacks on USA govt systems :-)
Of course, this means the USA government will require all the world's
keyboards to be equipped with the 50,000 volt "this will shock you"
devices that only the uSA government can trigger :-)
In other words, the politician's words should be included in some comic
book, but shouldn't be discussed seriously.
