[121385] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Anyone see a game changer here?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (andrew.wallace)
Sat Jan 16 06:43:38 2010
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Date: Sat, 16 Jan 2010 11:42:56 +0000
From: "andrew.wallace" <andrew.wallace@rocketmail.com>
To: williams.bruce@gmail.com
Cc: Nanog <nanog@nanog.org>
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On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 2:07 PM, Bruce Williams
<williams.bruce@gmail.com> wrote:
> Mark Rasch, former head of the Department of Justice computer crime
> unit, called the attacks =93cyberwarfare,=94 and said it was clearly an
> escalation of a digital conflict between China and the U.S.
>
> As if the old threat models weren't bad enough...
>
>
> Bruce
It appears this is just western propaganda because:
One analyst said Friday that he is not sure the attacks point to the
Chinese government. Rob Knake, a cybersecurity expert with the Council
on Foreign Relations, said his analysis of results from a technology
firm investigating the attacks suggests that they "were not
state-sponsored or the work of an elite, sophisticated group such as
the Chinese military."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/01/15/AR201001150=
3321.html
Andrew
