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Man Challenges 250,000 Strong Botnet and Succeeds
nandemoari writes "When security officials decide to 'go after' computer malware, most conduct their actions from a defensive standpoint. For most of us, finding a way to rid a computer of the malware suffices — but for one computer researcher, however, the change from a defensive to an offensive mentality is what ended the two year chase of a sinister botnet once and for all. For two years, Atif Mushtaq had been keeping the notorious Mega-D bot malware from infecting computer networks. As of this past November, he suddenly switched from defense to offense. Mega-D had forced more than 250,000 PCs to do its bidding via botnet control."
Militarily the US beat the living shit out of the North Vietnamese. The reason for the loss was the failing will of the public in the US. If that hadn't happened the North Vietnamese would have thrown in the towel
I take it you mean the North Vietnamese that were still living in North Vietnam, since by the time we gave up the Viet Cong had moved into South Vietnamese towns where they looked and talked exactly like our allies, leading to the various infamous massacres that made it obvious that we had no fucking clue who the enemy was anymore, and nobody had any ideas on how to figure it out except to either kill everyone or have our soldiers march around in circles until someone killed them.
The real reason is that the NVA waited until after the US pulled out then violated the treaty they'd signed and invaded. When that happened, the US Congress also ignored its treaty obligations and sent nothing but some token munitions.
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This is a really bad analogy.
The Tet Offensive was the end of the Viet Cong, except the US didn't believe it. Had the US simply stayed a while longer the [police action] may well have ended with an American victory.
Iraq is already won.
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Damn it, I'm getting all misty here.
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What a depressingly stupid machine.
OT here, but the US air war was fighting with one arm tied behind it's back. The Vietnam Rules of Engagement included such wonders as only shooting at enemy aircraft or SAMs after they were fired upon. I can understand not firebombing whole cities but not taking out enemy air fields, SAM sites, anti aircraft and enemy fighters is insane.
Kind of like the treaty that the South Vietnamese violated by refusing to hold elections, because they knew that the communists would win the election; the violation that prompted the US to back the South in the war? Or are we forgetting that VietNam was the war where we sided against democracy from the start?
From Wiki:
( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viet_Nam_War )
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