http://computerworld.com/securitytopics/security/story/0,10801,76000,00.html
I don't think anyone is skeptical that fundamentalist muslims would try
internet attacks, what I think people are skeptical of is bakri's claim
that "There are millions of Muslims around the world involved in hacking
the Pentagon and Israeli government sites".
Of course the gullible media is just eating all this up. They love stories
that can be used to whip up internet hysteria.
-Dan
Thus spake "Dan Hollis" <goemon@anime.net>
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http://computerworld.com/securitytopics/security/story/0,10801,76000,00.html
I don't think anyone is skeptical that fundamentalist muslims would try
internet attacks, what I think people are skeptical of is bakri's claim
that "There are millions of Muslims around the world involved in hacking
the Pentagon and Israeli government sites".
I'm not skeptical that millions of starving Arabs living in caves or being
slaughtered by their dictators are going to find computers, connect to the
Net (outlawed by their leaders), and attack us.
What I'm skeptical of is that this threat is remotely comparable to another
AS7007 incident caused by some half-asleep NOC engineer in the US making a
typo or other random clueless mistake.
Hanlon's Razor: Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately
explained by stupidity.
S
Most Muslims are not Arab, or living in caves. There are certainly
millions of Muslim computer users, by now. In fact, I'd bet there
are more than a million Muslim computer users in the US alone.
Most Muslims, thank God, are not murderous fanatics or computer
abusers. But it would be quite foolish to underestimate the
capability of any large group, sufficiently motivated, to inflict
massive damage.
Barney Wolff wrote:
...
But it would be quite foolish to underestimate the
capability of any large group, sufficiently motivated, to inflict
massive damage.
I agree. Never underestimate power of a fringe lunatic group to
cause harm. Now, I am going to go out on a thin limb and
ask the following: When Experts say,
"don't dismiss cyberattack warning," what can somebody like
me (just a regular user) or for that matter
others with several degrees of better knowledge in the workings
of cyber networks than I, do to stop cyber attacks from happening?
-raj kulkarni
Rajendra G. Kulkarni wrote:
I agree. Never underestimate power of a fringe lunatic group to
cause harm. Now, I am going to go out on a thin limb and
ask the following: When Experts say,
"don't dismiss cyberattack warning," what can somebody like
me (just a regular user) or for that matter
others with several degrees of better knowledge in the workings
of cyber networks than I, do to stop cyber attacks from happening?
I think the real question (at least for NANOG members) is not whether terrorists are ready willing and able to to launch attacks against networks. It should be obvious that they are.
The real question is whether those attacks will be any worse than the attacks from other sources that have been hitting our networks on a regular basis for the past several years.
Are these terrorists actually trying to figure out ways to crack Windows, Linux, IOS and other popular operating systems or are they just downloading the same software that the script kiddies are already using?
-- David