Well they don't tell you which 2 percent either. For all we know "only 2 percent were successful" and yielded launch codes... or "only 2 percent were successful" and yielded next weeks lunch schedule. Big difference on which 2 percent:). On Fri, 17 Jan 2003, jnull wrote:
But the article also says less than 2% of the "attacks" resulted in a successful intrusion.
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/01/17/technology/17HACK.html
2% would be an embarrassingly large success rate for intrusion on a "secured" military network. But, I'm sure they'll float any articles they can to get congress to allocate more funds to the cyberpanic squad--go go big brother. Not too mention, the news whores are always a willing accomplice in fabricating hype.
Oh wait, is today cynical Friday?
--jnull