[53699] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Cyberattack FUD
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Rajendra G. Kulkarni)
Wed Nov 20 20:10:53 2002
Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2002 20:11:07 -0500
From: "Rajendra G. Kulkarni" <rkulkarn@gmu.edu>
To: William Waites <ww@styx.org>
Cc: Kurt Erik Lindqvist <kurtis@kurtis.pp.se>,
Stephen Sprunk <ssprunk@cisco.com>, Michael.Dillon@radianz.com,
nanog@nanog.org, sgorman1@gmu.edu
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
William Waites wrote:
> Taking the fear mongering and sabre rattling too seriously is much
> more dangerous than any possible network outage.
> -w
The context may be different, however, the following two stories tell yet
other sides
of cyber security problem. In this case, it is not the net but the
users of the net, both the public (govt.)
http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1105-966444.html
and private sector seem susceptible.
http://computerworld.com/securitytopics/security/cybercrime/story/0,10801,76071,00.html
Don't know whether this fear mongering/saber rattling or something else.
-raj
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http://computerworld.com/securitytopics/security/cybercrime/story/0,10801,76071,00.html
http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1105-966444.html
