[160996] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: NYT covers China cyberthreat
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Miles Fidelman)
Thu Feb 21 13:39:41 2013
Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2013 13:39:13 -0500
From: Miles Fidelman <mfidelman@meetinghouse.net>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <20130221101739.FB02AB0C@m0005299.ppops.net>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
Scott Weeks wrote:
>
> --- calin.chiorean@secdisk.net wrote:
>
>>> You seem "upset" that they are using M$ only(target and
>>> source).
> I'm not upset. I'm pointing out what Steven Bellovin said
> in just a few words: "This strongly suggests that it's not
> their A-team..."
>
> This is a technical mailing list where cutting edge stuff
> is discussed. The compromise was not using cutting edge
> stuff and, so, is a big <yawn> for this list.
>
Not to be pedantic, but I thought the list was about network operations
- and
as much (or more) about practice, than about "cutting edge stuff." (Well
maybe a little pedantic.)
From an operational point of view, unless I'm an exceptionally high-value
target, I'm more likely to be threatened by the B-team (or C-team), than
the
A-team (recognizing, of course, that what the A-team is doing today, is
what the
script kiddies will be doing tomorrow).
Miles Fidelman
--
In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice.
In practice, there is. .... Yogi Berra
