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Message-Id: <2F29CED5-FB9D-4DCF-B175-B6181DB0466E@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 9 Jul 2009 13:06:58 -0400
From: J Michael Graham <jmgraham@...il.com>
To: "foofus@...fus.net" <foofus@...fus.net>
Cc: "full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk" <full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk>
Subject: Re: can someone please try and explain to me....
Man, I LOVE sayin it. I say it all the time. Boss comes in talking
about budget cuts, I just stand up shouting "CYBERWAR!!" and he backs
out the doorway. Mission accomplished.
On Jul 9, 2009, at 11:56, foofus@...fus.net wrote:
>> Why people call this so-called Korea DDoS a cyber war? Don't people
>> know
>> how the Internet works yet?
>
> The problem isn't that people fail to understand how the Internet
> works
> (they do fail at this, but that's not the problem). The problem is
> how
> exciting it is to use terms like "cyberwar." In the words of a
> prominent
> researcher:
>
> if [people shouting "cyberwar"] want to be taken seriously, they
> need
> to start releasing proof to the mailing lists and name specific
> intelligence agency's who are conducting the Cyberwar. I don't think
> there is a cyberwar, there will be intelligencers probing the
> networks
> for secrets, thats not a cyberwar. Cyberwar is something completely
> different [...] Cyberwar *could* be real, *look at this*. Although
> the truth is, we haven't seen a Cyberwar yet, it's still in the
> imaginary dream book stage.
>
> Regardless of one's understanding of the Internet, getting to say
> "cyberwar"
> is just too tempting for lots of people to resist.
>
> --Foofus.
>
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