Michael Mooney releases another worm: Law Enforcement /Intelligence Agency's do nothing

Sat Apr 18 06:56:01 UTC 2009

Pardon the ignorance

I have to take this a step back. Your neighbor leaves their window open with
a fresh bowl of fish near the window. A bunch of cats show up and start
trying to get in, to no avail do they get in. At the first chance you
discuss this with your neighbor, and warn them of this situation. The
following day the neighbor does the same thing, window open, fresh bowl of
fish, do you 
A: sit back and say "Told you so".
B: Swat the cats away and guard the window.
C: kill all the cats in the area.
D: hire the cats to find another open window. 

I know this sounds silly, but to simplify things, If you

A: Sitting back and watching the whole mess your now an accessory (Yeah I
watched em)
B: Neighbor says "Hey I wanted to take pictures of those cats and you shoed
them away!"
C: Vigilante style kill all the cats. Closing a window just is too much.
D: Hire cats? Perhaps another EDS commercial.

If theres a genuine exploit that one has been made aware of, and there is no
preventive action made than I think we all know the outcome. If theres a
sudden exploit that runs ramped that you haven't been aware of than lots of
time spent researching it. Locking up all the "bad guys" will not solve the
short comings of security in applications. 

But just my 2¢s
- Joe Blanchard

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Randy Bush [mailto:randy at psg.com] 
> Sent: Saturday, April 18, 2009 12:56 AM
> To: andrew.wallace
> Cc: n3td3v; nanog at nanog.org
> Subject: Re: Michael Mooney releases another worm: Law 
> Enforcement /Intelligence Agency's do nothing
> 
> > So if Al-Qaeda blow up a shopping centre and the guy who 
> masterminded 
> > it turns out to be 17 he gets a job in MI5?
> 
> what is more fun than a net vigilante?  a ranting and raving 
> hyperbolic net vigilante.
> 