[54819] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Less than 2% of computer attacks on military are successful
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Scott Granados)
Fri Jan 17 12:22:36 2003
Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2003 09:22:09 -0800 (PST)
From: Scott Granados <scott@wworks.net>
To: jnull <jnull@truerouting.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <001f01c2be40$4646e1b0$28002740@jnull2>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
Well they don't tell you which 2 percent either.
For all we know
"only 2 percent were successful" and yielded launch codes...
or
"only 2 percent were successful" and yielded next weeks lunch schedule.
Big difference on which 2 percent:).
On Fri, 17 Jan 2003, jnull wrote:
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>
> > 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
>
>
