On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 11:50 AM, George Bonser <gbon...@seven.com> wrote: > > > >> From: christopher.mor...@gmail.com >> Sent: Friday, October 22, 2010 8:05 AM >> To: George Bonser >> Cc: NANOG >> Subject: Re: DHS and NSA getting married? >> >> are any of the civilian agencies really prepared/capable of dealing >> with 'cyber attack'? it seems fairly natural that a 'cyber attack' (on >> the gov't, or it's pieces/parts) is equivalent to an 'attack' on same. >> We don't arm the NIST folks with Ar-15's and send them over the hill, >> we do that with marines. >> >> -chris > > "cyber attack" wasn't what caught my eye. It was the notion of NSA > having a domestic role defined in policy that I thought was different > here.
not all packets have source addresses in the US, not all facilities in the US Gov't cares about are in the Us.