Date: Mon, 03 Feb 2003 17:04:04 -0800 From: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> To: Brad Knowles <brad.knowles@skynet.be> Cc: JacobRhoden <jrhoden@unimelb.edu.au>, freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: oh my god the nasa shuttle blewup Message-ID: <3E3F1184.5C0A56AB@mindspring.com> References: <A2B6C76C-371E-11D7-839A-000393A335A2@mac.com> <200302031346.34040.jrhoden@unimelb.edu.au> <a05200f09ba63ee3f5081@[10.0.1.2]> <3E3EACA8.D3C4310F@mindspring.com> <a05200f14ba64afc1be46@[10.0.1.2]>
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Brad Knowles wrote: > At 9:53 AM -0800 2003/02/03, Terry Lambert wrote: > > The bad guys do not need a handbook on how to think about getting > > around the (obvious, after analysis) holes in security and other > > protocols at NASA, or airports, nor do they need suggestions on how > > to perform their acts successfully. > > I worked for over five years at the Pentagon. One lesson I > learned early is that there is no scheme you or I or anyone else can > come up with that the bad guys haven't probably already thought of. I find that extremely unlikely, actually, or the bad guys would already have won, since there are a lot of minimal effort things that you could do to disrupt the U.S. economy, if that was your target. The WTC crash was a big deal politically and in terms of human interest, but it didn't significantly disrupt any of the underlying systems, to any real degree. It was an incredibly ineffective act. > It is the duty of people who consider themselves to be good guys > to come up with every single whacked-out idea they can, bring them up > (albeit in the proper channels) and let them be analyzed and > categorized, and if considered to be a serious threat, then obviously > someone will be responsible for doing something to try to at least > detect that type of attack before it occurs or to lessen the > potential effects of such an attack. The threat level is usually based on the probability "the bad guys" will think it. -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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