[131355] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: DHS and NSA getting married?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Marshall Eubanks)
Fri Oct 22 11:42:06 2010
From: Marshall Eubanks <tme@americafree.tv>
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTi=NBF4_OCSb6J_DwtJ0G1NGmHQiXeZwWw494C4v@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2010 11:40:16 -0400
To: Christopher Morrow <morrowc.lists@gmail.com>
Cc: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Oct 22, 2010, at 11:32 AM, Christopher Morrow wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 11:08 AM, Steven Bellovin =
<smb@cs.columbia.edu> wrote:
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>> In the words of a former Justice Department official involved =
with critical infrastructure protection, =93I have seen too many =
situations where government officials claimed a high degree of =
confidence as to the source, intent, and scope of an attack, and it =
turned out they were wrong on every aspect of it. That is, they were =
often wrong, but never in doubt.=94
>=20
> 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'.
And for those people, being highly confident is typically viewed as a =
positive feature.
Regards
Marshall
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> -chris
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