This list covers a lot that is not necessarily Linux specific. Secondly let me also point out that the prior article covered a different problem with OpenXML
----- Original Message ---- From: Andrew Lentvorski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Main Discussion List for KPLUG <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, November 23, 2007 11:56:28 PM Subject: Re: China has the largest (DoS) Denial of service capability....! Randall Shimizu wrote: > China has the largest (DoS) Denial of service attack capability....!! Are you sure you're not a bot? Sheesh. Crap formatting, Microsoft OpenXML repeats, and now a completely non-Linux relevant article. >It may not be impressive, but the results have the potential to be much more devastating. Compared to the zillions of zombified Windows machines, I doubt China is that impressive. In addition, all of China's traffic gets throttled through a small number of optic links, IIRC. >This is not feasible since we live in global economy. Simply pulling the plug on those links stops anything China wants to do. This is not true for the zombies that already exist in our own country. Yes, China has cyber-warfare as one of its goals--*as does our military*. >The difference is that China has been actively using cybe warfare against our >military. China has taken down several US sites. The White House, the US Naval >academy, CIA as well as other sites >(http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=27800 ) And, if our military *doesn't* have cyber-warfare as one of its goals, then our military is pathetically stupid. -a -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
