RE: [iwar] Why it doesn't work to fight back - for now...

From: Stan Stricklen (sstricklen@landstar.com)
Date: 2001-08-01 18:23:01


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Subject: RE: [iwar] Why it doesn't work to fight back - for now...
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Please take me off distribution, I have enjoyed it, but now I must move on
to other things having finished my masters at the US Army War College.

Personal Regards,

Stan Stricklen

-----Original Message-----
From: Fred Cohen [mailto:fc@all.net]
Sent: Tuesday, July 31, 2001 12:22 AM
To: iwar@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [iwar] Why it doesn't work to fight back - for now...


Per the message sent by e.r.:

> This is no longer a game and it is time to put your money where your
> mouth is.  To claim we are the "all knowing" of the IWAR circut and
> then to do nothing makes you look just as bad as the AOL lover-Im not
> kidding- on Dr. Rice's Committee.  In fact it makes you look worse
> because you know better.

> Fred, Tony and company, we have to attempt to effectuate change, or at
> a min. not allow these fools to damage national security dependent
> parts of the cyber infrastructure beyond repair.  It is a real
> possibility with the attacks like Code Red, and others from foreign
> nationals whose goals are to trash that system we rely on. I hate being
> correct in such situations, but it is hard to deny. I did grow up in a
> second rate nation and I will do whatever I can to slow down the
> adversaries. How about you, folks?  It is gut check time and I hope you
> will take the chance at intervention.

Remember, this is an open and global forum.  Many on this forum may not
be on your side.

The problem of going out and solving these problems is a bit complex
today.  For example, I am pretty certian I could stop the Red Code virus
in its tracks without much effort - a half a day with a skilled Windows
programmer would probably do it - the problem is that the techniques
available for doing this are violations of law - so I would have to do
it covertly and at personal risk of prosecution.  I know that you could
try to claim necessity in court, but I don't have time for that and I
doubt if Red Code will get to the level where we need to use these
techniques against it.

We are about to abandon our counter-staganography research because of
the DMCA - which basically makes it illegal to crack the codes used by
the bad guys (you cannot create a mechanism that bypasses an effective
security measure that protects copyright material - allmost all material
is effectively copyright when you write it down or put it in a computer
- so digital forensics is now a very dubious field to be in).

The sad truth is that the government continues to restrict my ability to
legally do research and most everything I can do that actually has
large-scale effect is highly dubious from a legal standpoint.  This does
not stop the bad guys from doing it - when steganalysis is illegal, only
criminals will do steganalysis - when forensics is illegal, only
criminals will do forensics - that's where it's going.

Enough ranting - back to iwar...

FC
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