On Sunday 02 September 2007 23:05, hack the gov wrote: > On 9/2/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [snip] > > No, between Storm and the Rock Phish stuff, I hardly think they > > qualify as "pussies". Taking in $150M with *one* of their projects > > makes them seriously big time. > > > > http://www.economist.com/displaystory.cfm?subjectid=7933606&story_i > >d=9723768 > [more snip] > i think most americans would hand over their computer to the american > government for a "cyber nuke program" to counter the "cyber threat" > by russia. if i thought russia was "cyber nuking" the west or was > about to, i'd sure let my computer be signed upto the "cyber nuke > program", to make sure my bandwidth killed the russians "cyber nuke".
Er, wouldn't a sizeable number of the computers in the botnet be in .us anyway? There's no ``russians "cyber nuke"'', they just happen to control zombies all over the world. > this talk is very futuristic, but i think in the future we will need > to get a u.s president to convince the american people that there is > a "cyber threat", and we need your computers to counter incoming > "cyber attacks" by foreign governments and terrorist groups. > [snip] Dude, ``your computer'' is probably already on the botnet! The solution is a way to keep computers clean, not going around nuking each other. There are also no ``incoming "cyber attacks"'' -- the attack is from your neighbour's PC. Regards, -- Raju -- Raj Mathur [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://kandalaya.org/ Freedom in Technology & Software || September 2007 || http://freed.in/ GPG: 78D4 FC67 367F 40E2 0DD5 0FEF C968 D0EF CC68 D17F PsyTrance & Chill: http://schizoid.in/ || It is the mind that moves _______________________________________________ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter: http://lists.grok.org.uk/full-disclosure-charter.html Hosted and sponsored by Secunia - http://secunia.com/
