DHS and NSA getting married?

Fri Oct 22 22:57:03 UTC 2010

On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 11:32:38AM -0400, Christopher Morrow wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 11:08 AM, Steven Bellovin <smb at 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