Date sent: Mon, 29 Sep 2008 21:24:18 -0700 From: Paul Ferguson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> The United States needs to do more to develop an offensive cyberwar > capability rather than just focus on defending its networks from attack, > says the chairman of the House cybersecurity subcommittee. > http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2008/sep/29/us-urged-to-go-on-offense-i > n-cyberwar/ So, we're heading for Mutually Assured DDoS? (Heck, why should they have learned anything in twenty years? I remember the first call for proposals on how to use viruses as offensive weapons--as if they weren't offensive enough. Met with deafening silence from the AV research community. Was later appalled to find that at least three $50K contracts were let for first stage proposals, and at least one got $500K to go to the seccond stage. These were, pretty much by definition, people who didn't know what they were talking about.) ====================== (quote inserted randomly by Pegasus Mailer) [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] We peer so suspiciously at each other that we cannot see that we Canadians are standing on a mountaintop of human wealth, freedom and privilege. - Pierre Elliott Trudeau, Dec. 31, 1980 victoria.tc.ca/techrev/rms.htm blogs.securiteam.com/index.php/archives/author/p1/ _______________________________________________ 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.
