[161004] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: NYT covers China cyberthreat
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Suresh Ramasubramanian)
Thu Feb 21 19:41:35 2013
In-Reply-To: <51268A71.4080803@brightok.net>
Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2013 06:11:21 +0530
From: Suresh Ramasubramanian <ops.lists@gmail.com>
To: Jack Bates <jbates@brightok.net>
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
And so their bush league by itself was responsible for all the penetrations
that mandiant says they did? Which shows that they don't have to be
particularly smart, just a bit smarter than their average spear phish or
other attack's victim.
On Friday, February 22, 2013, Jack Bates wrote:
> On 2/21/2013 12:17 PM, Scott Weeks wrote:
>
>>
>> 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..."
>>
>>
>>
> The A-team doesn't get caught and detailed. The purpose of the other teams
> is to detect easy targets, handle easy jobs, and create lots of noise for
> the A-team to hide in. Hacking has always had a lot in common with magic.
> Misdirection is a useful tool.
>
> Jack
>
>
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