[138793] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: US .mil blocking in Japan
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (andrew.wallace)
Wed Mar 16 12:14:22 2011
Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2011 09:14:13 -0700 (PDT)
From: "andrew.wallace" <andrew.wallace@rocketmail.com>
To: Jeff Aitken <jaitken@aitken.com>
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Reply-To: "andrew.wallace" <andrew.wallace@rocketmail.com>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
=0AOn Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 12:58 PM, Jeff Aitken <jaitken@aitken.com> wrote=
:=0A> What's to be surprised about?=0A=0AThis isn't the rhetoric of a super=
power, more like one of a university campus. To think these guys have buil=
t a cyber command with war waging capabilities, and allegedly capable of bu=
ilding nuclear worms such as Stuxnet. It strikes me straight away as amateu=
rish to be blocking web sites in able to have enough bandwidth for operatio=
nal purposes. You would think their war fighting networks, weren't the same=
ones used for civilian-based web sites on the public internet. It seems th=
ere is a conflict here between what they push out to the media as to what t=
heir cyber capabilities are, and what the realities are on the ground. In t=
hat respect, yes I'm very surprised. --- Andrew=0A=0A=0A
