[160944] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: NYT covers China cyberthreat
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jay Ashworth)
Wed Feb 20 12:17:36 2013
Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2013 12:15:21 -0500 (EST)
From: Jay Ashworth <jra@baylink.com>
To: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
In-Reply-To: <m21ucb1i69.wl%randy@psg.com>
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----- Original Message -----
> From: "Randy Bush" <randy@psg.com>
> > Part of the entire 'chinese l337 hxx0r spy' 1st complex is
> > apparently
> > the local equivalent of a community college, where the passing out
> > assignment is probably something on the lines of 'get me a dump of
> > the dalai lama's email'.
>
> american education is behind in many things. this is but one.
So true, Randy.
But I think the underlying point here was more "when you do these things
on the scale that nation-states do them, the result is different in
type, not merely in degree".
Cheers,
-- jra
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