[131353] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: DHS and NSA getting married?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Christopher Morrow)
Fri Oct 22 11:32:50 2010
In-Reply-To: <01D3B1BF-5CFE-4A64-8545-C420E32C687F@cs.columbia.edu>
Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2010 11:32:38 -0400
From: Christopher Morrow <morrowc.lists@gmail.com>
To: Steven Bellovin <smb@cs.columbia.edu>
Cc: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 11:08 AM, Steven Bellovin <smb@cs.columbia.edu> wro=
te:
> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0In the words of a former Justice Department official invol=
ved with critical infrastructure protection, =93I have seen too many situat=
ions where government officials claimed a high degree of confidence as to t=
he source, intent, and scope of an attack, and it turned out they were wron=
g on every aspect of it. That is, they were often wrong, but never in doubt=
.=94
this happens with non-cyber things as well... all the time. Point
being: "cyber-attack" follows down the path of 'send the people that
deal with "attacks" to deal with this'.
-chris
