DHS and NSA getting married?

Christopher Morrow morrowc.lists at gmail.com
Fri Oct 22 16:08:59 UTC 2010


On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 11:50 AM, George Bonser <gbonser at seven.com> wrote:
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>> From: christopher.morrow at gmail.com
>> Sent: Friday, October 22, 2010 8:05 AM
>> To: George Bonser
>> Cc: NANOG
>> Subject: Re: DHS and NSA getting married?
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>> are any of the civilian agencies really prepared/capable of dealing
>> with 'cyber attack'? it seems fairly natural that a 'cyber attack' (on
>> the gov't, or it's pieces/parts) is equivalent to an 'attack' on same.
>> We don't arm the NIST folks with Ar-15's and send them over the hill,
>> we do that with marines.
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>> -chris
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> "cyber attack" wasn't what caught my eye.  It was the notion of NSA
> having a domestic role defined in policy that I thought was different
> here.

not all packets have source addresses in the US, not all facilities in
the US Gov't cares about are in the Us.




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