On Oct 22, 2010, at 11:32 AM, Christopher Morrow wrote: > On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 11:08 AM, Steven Bellovin <s...@cs.columbia.edu> > wrote: > >> In the words of a former Justice Department official involved with >> critical infrastructure protection, “I have seen too many situations where >> government officials claimed a high degree of confidence as to the source, >> intent, and scope of an attack, and it turned out they were wrong on every >> aspect of it. That is, they were often wrong, but never in doubt.” > > this happens with non-cyber things as well... all the time. Point > being: "cyber-attack" follows down the path of 'send the people that > deal with "attacks" to deal with this'.
And for those people, being highly confident is typically viewed as a positive feature. Regards Marshall > > -chris > >
