CIA Warns of Chinese Plans for Cyber-Attacks on U.S.

Fri Apr 26 19:03:35 UTC 2002

Only half tongue in cheek, does anyone know of a consise resource pointing
out the netblocks allocated to .kr, etc so I can answer my own

"How do I configure my router for ...."  question that Randy will inevitably
bring up?

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-nanog at merit.edu [mailto:owner-nanog at merit.edu]On Behalf Of
> Deepak Jain
> Sent: Friday, April 26, 2002 2:43 PM
> To: todd glassey; Joel Jaeggli
> Cc: blitz; nanog at trapdoor.merit.edu
> Subject: RE: CIA Warns of Chinese Plans for Cyber-Attacks on U.S.
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> I'm happy to take the blame for the real problem. Exactly what am I taking
> the blame for?
>
> Deepak Jain
> AiNET
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: todd glassey [mailto:todd.glassey at worldnet.att.net]
> Sent: Friday, April 26, 2002 9:43 AM
> To: Joel Jaeggli; Deepak Jain
> Cc: blitz; nanog at trapdoor.merit.edu
> Subject: Re: CIA Warns of Chinese Plans for Cyber-Attacks on U.S.
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> SNIP-
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> >
> > > We're off-topic, but I'd say that cyberterrorismis far less
> expensive to
> > > create than invasion or nuclear weapons.
>
> And they are much easier to stop. Just turn off the routers such
> that China
> is its own sealed-in infrastructure. But if its China's money you
> are after
> then you will have to build something akin to a "demarcation gateway"
> between China and the rest of the world and then who cares what is done
> inside China. Or you will ultimately be held liable for your custiomer's
> attacks against the rest of the world...
>
> You operators still dont seem to get that YOU are the real problem here.
>
> Todd Glassey
>
> > >
> > > Deepak Jain
> > > AiNET
> > >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: owner-nanog at merit.edu [mailto:owner-nanog at merit.edu]On Behalf Of
> > > blitz
> > > Sent: Thursday, April 25, 2002 6:33 PM
> > > To: nanog at trapdoor.merit.edu
> > > Subject: RE: CIA Warns of Chinese Plans for Cyber-Attacks on U.S.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > I put nothing past them, of course theyre not alone, as we all must
> assume
> > > by now.
> > > Theyve threatened to nuke LA if we interfere with their plans to take
> > > Tiawan by force, and smile and say, kill 300 million of us, do us a
> favor.
> > > Kinda hard to deal with an enemy like that.
> > >
> > > At 18:01 4/25/02 -0400, you wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > > >Is it really hard to believe that the Chinese government
> would actively
> > > fund
> > > >cyberterrorism?
> > > >
> > > >Deepak Jain
> > > >AiNET
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
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> > Joel Jaeggli       Academic User Services   joelja at darkwing.uoregon.edu
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> >   In Dr. Johnson's famous dictionary patriotism is defined as the last
> >   resort of the scoundrel.  With all due respect to an enlightened but
> >   inferior lexicographer I beg to submit that it is the first.
> >                -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary"
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