On Oct 22, 2010, at 11:32 AM, Christopher Morrow wrote:
On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 11:08 AM, Steven Bellovin <smb@cs.columbia.edu> wrote:
In the words of a former Justice Department official involved with critical infrastructure protection, “I have seen too many situations where government officials claimed a high degree of confidence as to the source, intent, and scope of an attack, and it turned out they were wrong on every aspect of it. That is, they were often wrong, but never in doubt.”
this happens with non-cyber things as well... all the time. Point being: "cyber-attack" follows down the path of 'send the people that deal with "attacks" to deal with this'.
And for those people, being highly confident is typically viewed as a positive feature. Regards Marshall
-chris