[iwar] Historical posting
From: Fred Cohen
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Date: Mon, Jan 1, 1999
From: Fred Cohen
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Subject: [iwar] Historical posting
Interesting question and a good point, Rob. National level planners, take
heed! The capability undoubtedly exists. However, the effort would need to
be centrally coordinated (for DISA and the national civilian agencies) and
further managed within each agency. Unless I'm mistaken, there is no
Internet or Infosec FEMA type organization (yet) and I don't think that DISA
has a single civilian counterpart.
For a protracted operation, this would be possible but it would also take
time to coordinate. Hence, the barn door is left open for short operations
where there has never been an exercise to test such a plan. If it isn't part
of someone's national contingency planning, it should be. The recent
Yugoslavia difficulties would have been an excellent opportunity to test
such a plan. But alas, I doubt that our planning has advanced far enough as
to actually be able to coordinate mass blockages such as you suggest.
Staffing such a plan around the different government agencies would be a
nightmare without a presidential directive.
Sorry, but I never did get around to announcing myself as a newbee here. I'm
Charlie Clayton. Former IWO for Special Operations Command Europe (SOCEUR)
when I was called up for the Bosnia thing (9 month Presidential Selective
Recall as an Army Reservist). Former Special Security Officer for Fort
Bragg, NC. Currently the UNIX security guy for a medium sized company in
Greensboro stuck doing the Y2K project (yuck!).
CHARLES J. CLAYTON, CISSP
UNIX Security/Y2K
New Breed Corporations
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Rob Rosenberger [SMTP:us@k...]
> Sent: Wednesday, September 01, 1999 9:29 PM
> To: iwar@onelist.com
> Subject: RE: [iwar] Today in the news
>
> From: "Rob Rosenberger" us@k...
>
> >Hackers with Chinese Internet addresses launched coordinated
> >cyberattacks against the United States and allied forces during
> >the air war against Yugoslavia this spring
>
> Okay, I'll ask an obvious question. Did DISA at least block all
> IANA-assigned Chinese IP addresses so they couldn't visit .mil sites? Did
> DISA's civilian counterpart do the same for .gov sites? Or does our
> government pursue an "allow unless denied" policy with adversaries?
>
> We restrict Chinese nationals from visiting U.S. government installations
> except under specific circumstances, so why can't we restrict Chinese IPs
> from visiting U.S. government computers except under specific
> circumstances?
>
> Rob Rosenberger, webmaster
> Computer Virus Myths home page
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