DHS and NSA getting married?

Quinn Kuzmich lostinmoscow at gmail.com
Fri Oct 22 23:07:46 UTC 2010


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 <mpalmer at 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 <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
>
>



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