[37068] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: black hat .cn networks
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Roger Marquis)
Mon Apr 30 21:24:06 2001
Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2001 17:01:12 -0700 (PDT)
From: Roger Marquis <marquis@roble.com>
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Walter Prue <prue@ISI.EDU> wrote:
> The folks in the US who counterattack might be well advised to
> reconsider doing so. I would imagine that traffic from the US would be
> closely monitored. Any new hacking tricks that these counterattacks
> might use would then be recorded and analyzed. These techniques could
> then be used by them to further attack the US.
Does anyone know if these China scares are for real? The probability
they are simply Pentagon/Administration propaganda seems too high
to discount. I ask because we've seen no increase in the (already
substantial) number of scans from CN/KR/HK/... netblocks. Does
any hard evidence exist?
--
Roger Marquis
Roble Systems Consulting
http://www.roble.com/
