You know, if my tax dollars paid for that I'd probably sit back with a video camera and laugh.
Q On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 4:57 PM, Matthew Palmer <mpal...@hezmatt.org> wrote: > 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 > >
