On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 11:32:38AM -0400, 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'.
For non-cyber things, that would be "the police" almost every time. We don't send a squad of marines out after every mugger (although it'd have an interesting deterrent effect...) - Matt
