NYT covers China cyberthreat

Fri Feb 22 00:41:21 UTC 2013

And so their bush league by itself was responsible for all the penetrations
that mandiant says they did?  Which shows that they don't have to be
particularly smart, just a bit smarter than their average spear phish or
other attack's victim.

On Friday, February 22, 2013, Jack Bates wrote:

> On 2/21/2013 12:17 PM, Scott Weeks wrote:
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>> I'm not upset.  I'm pointing out what Steven Bellovin said
>> in just a few words: "This strongly suggests that it's not
>> their A-team..."
>>
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> The A-team doesn't get caught and detailed. The purpose of the other teams
> is to detect easy targets, handle easy jobs, and create lots of noise for
> the A-team to hide in. Hacking has always had a lot in common with magic.
> Misdirection is a useful tool.
>
> Jack
>
>

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