Re: [iwar] Why Code Red is never going to Spread Exponentially

From: Fred Cohen (fc@all.net)
Date: 2001-08-03 22:58:26


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Date: Fri, 3 Aug 2001 22:58:26 -0700 (PDT)
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Subject: Re: [iwar] Why Code Red is never going to Spread Exponentially
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Per the message sent by e.r.:

> Nice to find another realist in the crowd.  Why have only a few people 
> scoffed off China as the creators of Code Red; the"Mother of all
> Viruses". I am not buying the idea that China did it, indigeniously. 
> If the Chinese are that good, why is there OPSEC(operational security)
> so bad. That is to say, if they were unaffected, and it was there bug,
> they blew their own cover.  If it were there's, they needed to take
> some hits-sound outraged at we "imperialist running dogs" for messing
> with them.  Why didnt the Chinese engage in a small, but very effective
> amount of "perception management".  I doubt it was because Jiang and
> the boys were at a Yankees game in NYC.  ERGO, WHY and WHO remain
> unanswered.  And, you won't find the answers in "big math".  Who dun
> it? and why?  When the final repair bills are in, there will be lots of
> zeros involved. Trival antics were not the point. Any ideas as to what
> was?

But if they got hit big time you would claim it was not them because
they got hit.  This is just not adequate evidence.


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