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Re: DHS and NSA getting married?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (todd glassey)
Fri Oct 22 14:09:01 2010

Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2010 11:08:51 -0700
From: todd glassey <tglassey@earthlink.net>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTikXOt1btsz4JehjHP+oRCHbybttwO+mGq_=6Zke@mail.gmail.com>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org

On 10/22/2010 8:04 AM, Christopher Morrow wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 1:46 AM, George Bonser <gbonser@seven.com> wrote:
>> An agreement signed this month with the Department of Homeland Security
>> and an earlier initiative to protect companies in the defense industrial
>> base make it likely that the military will be a key part of any response
>> to a cyber attack.
> 
> are any of the civilian agencies really prepared/capable of dealing
> with 'cyber attack'?

Yes...

 it seems fairly natural that a 'cyber attack' (on
> the gov't, or it's pieces/parts) is equivalent to an 'attack' on same.

true...

> We don't arm the NIST folks with Ar-15's and send them over the hill,
> we do that with marines.

So you clearly have never been on a DDCC S&D Raid I can tell.

Todd

> 
> -chris
> 
> 


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