[53665] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Experts: Don't dismiss cyberattack warning
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Stephen Sprunk)
Tue Nov 19 20:41:06 2002
From: "Stephen Sprunk" <ssprunk@cisco.com>
To: "Dan Hollis" <goemon@anime.net>,
"Rajendra G. Kulkarni" <rkulkarn@gmu.edu>
Cc: <nanog@nanog.org>
Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2002 19:40:14 -0600
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
Thus spake "Dan Hollis" <goemon@anime.net>
> On Tue, 19 Nov 2002, Rajendra G. Kulkarni wrote:
> >
http://computerworld.com/securitytopics/security/story/0,10801,76000,00.html
>
> I don't think anyone is skeptical that fundamentalist muslims would try
> internet attacks, what I think people are skeptical of is bakri's claim
> that "There are millions of Muslims around the world involved in hacking
> the Pentagon and Israeli government sites".
I'm not skeptical that millions of starving Arabs living in caves or being
slaughtered by their dictators are going to find computers, connect to the
Net (outlawed by their leaders), and attack us.
What I'm skeptical of is that this threat is remotely comparable to another
AS7007 incident caused by some half-asleep NOC engineer in the US making a
typo or other random clueless mistake.
Hanlon's Razor: Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately
explained by stupidity.
S
