[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
At 07:19 PM 1/11/2000 -0500, you wrote:
>The United States used two nuclear
>weapons for a similiar reason (that the ground war in Japan would either be
>futile or so costly as to be a Punic victory), but I don't think that anyone
>would argue that the United States used nuclear weapons as a means to
>bolster themselves in the eyes of the Japanese, or the world for that
>matter.
If not a Pyrrhic victory...
I'm not a great fan of attempting to draw too many parallels to information
security from either nuclear or "weapons of mass destruction" thinking,
though RAND's Roger Molander did do a good job, at the Computers, Freedom &
Privacy conference in 1997, of explaining how our current policy process
w.r.t. information threats mirrored the early years of "thinking about the
unthinkable," before we settled down into the stable regime of Mutually
Assured Destruction.
The danger, I think, is in expecting that national, military measures will
be much use in addressing the "info war" threat, when properly-secured
information systems are so integral to everything, yet so far, so neglected.
Ross
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