Posted on 05/26/2005 2:21:12 AM PDT by bd476
Hiya expatguy,
I guess everyone better back up their servers and stuff on the net just in case they FUBAR on this one.
Good point, Expatguy. They need to quickly improve in all areas.
I wanna play!
LOL, I'm not sure you are laughing with me or at me.
Now I wonder why Ms. Denning turned down the invitation if she really feels that way.
Her attendance would have given her the opportunity to lend her expertise. She could have helped now with imagining the unlikely scenarios.
I certainly hope that she does not criticize others if something goes wrong in the future.
Not to mention most terrorists don't have the brains.
Its one thing to recruit some guys to go take flight training as long as you are willing to foot the bill and the guys don't have to pass a competitive exam.
Its quite another to recruit some camel jockey to understand all of the detailed workings of a TCP stack well enough to outsmart all of the technicians that put the net together.
Terrorists would not be able to mount such an attack successfully. It has nothing in common with squeezing the trigger on an AK-47 or even mastering rotation of a 767.
The Worm writers or the Chinese are another matter. Since the Chinese do not spend the first 17 years of their lives blindly memorizing useless passages from the Koran they do have the skills to mount an attack, but probably know it would mean war - and the loss of market.
The real risk is from some hacker with either a huge budget or a huge grudge, or both. There are already articles to be found speculating that the relative quite on the worm development scene may be the sign of a new approach of compromising machines, but not making it obvious that they are compromised, until the developers want to pull the trigger. Then all those expensive windows boxes will become bots under the control of some unknown unwashed unshaven and undressed hacker in his pajamas in his parents basement. It will take months to find him.
It will take less than a week to block the damage done, as ISPs and major backbone carriers are already putting packet content filtering schemes to the test. These can quickly be tuned to the signature of new worms, and Norton and Mcaffee will make a fortune selling new anti-virus software.
If this sort of sounds to you like there is vast economic incentive to certain people for there to continue to be worms and viruses, you are probably right.
Because she would be subject to non-disclosure requirements?
She makes money on the side with her publishing and speaking gigs.
Financial incentive sounds plausible but is it okay to hold out hope for ethical programmers?
How would disclosure requirements negatively affect her ability to add to the research conference more than any other attending member?
The CIA would have recruited from other military grad schools, not just the Naval Postgraduate School. The attendees in the war games conference would have had similarly ranked security clearances.
I just thought it curious that she declined while advocating its importance.
"The CIA is conducting a secretive war game"
Not anymore. . .
For some reason, Dr. Denning's bio brings to mind Dr. Laurie Mylroie.
Ping.
Always the dollar then?
God and Country, ethics and conscience before self.
LOL. Yep.
Unfortunately, these types of wargames do not lend themselves to commercialization. These are typically "thinking games" where two teams in separate locations make decisions and issue orders, and everything is filtered through a referees' "cell." These are very free-flowing, open-ended scenarios relying heavily on the whims of the referees.
No no no, you are thinking like a good American - how can she help her country.....
Think about it in a money grubbing way...
If she attends, she will have to sign NDAs, and those might limits her ability to shill her books because she might have to get clearance for some topics.
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