[54814] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Less than 2% of computer attacks on military are successful
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (jnull)
Fri Jan 17 10:54:03 2003
From: "jnull" <jnull@truerouting.com>
To: <nanog@merit.edu>
Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2003 09:51:17 -0600
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.44.0301170417230.11201-100000@clifden.donelan.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
> But the article also says less than 2% of the "attacks" resulted
> in a successful intrusion.
>
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/01/17/technology/17HACK.html
2% would be an embarrassingly large success rate for intrusion on a
"secured" military network.
But, I'm sure they'll float any articles they can to get congress to
allocate more funds to the cyberpanic squad--go go big brother. Not too
mention, the news whores are always a willing accomplice in fabricating
hype.
Oh wait, is today cynical Friday?
--jnull
