[IP] more on Chinese hackers

[David Farber <dave@farber.net>]

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From: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>
Date: November 27, 2005 6:18:50 PM EST
To: dave@farber.net, ip@v2.listbox.com
Subject: Re: [IP] more on Chinese hackers

At 05:47 PM 11/25/2005, eekid@aol.com wrote:

> Mr. Farber,
> I work for the DOD and nmapping by employees happens fairly often.   
> To my knowledge, I'm not aware of anyone receiving a phone call or  
> an email, much less armed encounters.  : )
> Depending on where a person works, there is a DOD "NETWORK SECURITY  
> STAND-DOWN" either approaching or it has already passed.
> http://www.usmc.mil/maradmins/maradmin2000.nsf/ 
> 0/6a9ba6bbe69dac91852570ba0080ccc9?OpenDocument
>
> https://infosec.navy.mil/ps/?t=main/main.tag&bc=main/bc_main.html

What's truly interesting is that the second of these links also  
mentions the distribution of Symantec's Norton antivirus software  
within the DoD. This implies that the DoD is using Windows systems  
which run the Symantec software. Given that Windows is infamously  
insecure (with new security holes surfacing weekly) and Symantec has  
announced that there are security holes that it will not close  
(austensibly to allow the government to snoop on users, but hackers  
can of course use the same holes), is it any wonder that there are  
problems?

--Brett Glass

"If builders built houses the way programmers built programs, the  
first woodpecker to come along would destroy civilization." --Gerald  
P. Weinberg



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