[LINK] why calm, rational thought is required....

[Kim Holburn]

On 2007/Feb/12, at 12:15 PM, Howard Lowndes wrote:
> Kim Holburn wrote:
>> On 2007/Feb/12, at 2:58 AM, Rick Welykochy wrote:
>>> Howard Lowndes wrote:
>>>
>>>> Not just Hitler but also his alterego, Dubya:
>>>> http://www.networkworld.com/news/2007/020807-rsa-cyber-attacks.html
>>>> "If the United States found itself under a major cyberattack  
>>>> aimed at undermining the nation’s critical information  
>>>> infrastructure, the Department of Defense is prepared, based on  
>>>> the authority of the president, to launch a cyber counterattack  
>>>> or an actual bombing of an attack source."
>>>
>>> Spam, esp. phishing attacks and worm distribution to set up  
>>> zombie bot
>>> armies should well be considered cyber attacks. What action is  
>>> the USA taking
>>> in this regard?
>> Invading Iraq?
>
> Wrong target.  How many botnet C&C, or even zombies, are Iraq  
> based. Probably zip...   Sorry, guys, try the old motherland for  
> zombies, there ain't nothing more stupid than an American...

There were at least as many cyber attackers in Iraq as Weapons of  
mass destruction, reason enough to invade I would have thought.   
Retrospectively of course.

Kim

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