Should we be hacking into the computer systems of our....adversaries? Actually, I would think so.
And I would put out honeypots for my own adversaries to attack and hope they think they were successful. This sounds like a job for the Department of Electronic Disinformation. Larry Seltzer eWEEK.com Security Center Editor http://security.eweek.com/ http://blogs.eweek.com/cheap_hack/ Contributing Editor, PC Magazine [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, September 12, 2007 2:00 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [funsec] China Says It Has Suffered 'Massive' Internet Spy Damage It looks like there is contest now on by governments of the world to claim the title for the most insecure government IT systems! ;-) Is Russia next? Richard > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Via Reuters. > > [snip] > > China has suffered "massive" losses of state secrets through the > Internet, a senior official said, as China faces reports that it has > raided the computer networks of Western powers. > > Vice Minister of Information Industry Lou Qinjian said his country was > the target of a campaign of computer infiltration and subversion and > proposed a raft of counter-measures including toughened censorship, > new security bodies and commercial controls. > > He did not address recent Western allegations of cyber-spying against > China. > > [snip] > > More: > http://www.reuters.com/article/internetNews/idUSPEK8648420070912 > > - - ferg > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: PGP Desktop 9.6.3 (Build 3017) > > wj8DBQFG6CT0q1pz9mNUZTMRAmgdAJ0c+y0pQeVfwjcrkz+B3hpKKcr/PwCfZwQw > C2uSqnbwZtQC0ENYh0wwKWQ= > =KzbD > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > > -- > "Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson > Engineering Architecture for the Internet fergdawg(at)netzero.net > ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/ > > > _______________________________________________ > Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. > https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec > Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list. > _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list. _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
