[133369] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Mastercard problems
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (James Downs)
Wed Dec 8 16:30:34 2010
From: James Downs <egon@egon.cc>
To: "andrew.wallace" <andrew.wallace@rocketmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <590810.26399.qm@web59603.mail.ac4.yahoo.com>
Date: Wed, 8 Dec 2010 13:30:20 -0800
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Dec 8, 2010, at 12:30 PM, andrew.wallace wrote:
> I would say the attack falls under the jurisdiction of the US secret
> service since this is an attack on the financial system.
>
> "Today the agency's primary investigative mission is to safeguard
> the payment and financial systems of the United States." ---
> secretservice.gov
Yikes.. you consider a private company's business to be the financial
and payment system of the United States?
-j
