[47142] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: CIA Warns of Chinese Plans for Cyber-Attacks on U.S.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu)
Thu Apr 25 21:49:13 2002
Message-Id: <200204260148.g3Q1mkQn020770@foo-bar-baz.cc.vt.edu>
To: deepak@ai.net, Steve Goldstein <sgoldste@nsf.gov>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 25 Apr 2002 18:40:24 EDT."
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From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2002 21:48:46 -0400
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Thu, 25 Apr 2002 17:54:44 EDT, Steve Goldstein <sgoldste@nsf.gov> said:
> Gosh, oh golly-gee, do you really think that they would do something
> like that (planting a story)?
Well, officially, we've decided that we don't do disinformation:
http://www.fas.org/sgp/news/2002/02/dod022602.html
Of course, the tinfoil helmet brigade, and most even-more-reasonable
people, would note that "we're closing down our Office of Disinformation"
would be the last we'd hear of it......
On Thu, 25 Apr 2002 18:40:24 EDT, Deepak Jain <deepak@ai.net> said:
> The threat to LA is the best available because I don't think they have a
> missle delivery vehicle capable of reaching any East Coast cities.
It's called a "barge".
http://www.fas.org/nuke/hew/Usa/Tests/Castle.html
See the Castle Romeo test, and many of the following ones.
We now return to Junipers running Outlook and other semi-operational material.
