Can't all these generals just get on World of Warcraft of whatever online game and fight each other there, instead of wasting everyone's money on using our internet as their newest play yard?
1. Some company gets hacked 2. Some security company (Mandiant) investigates and makes a non-peer-reviewed report (PDF) with very thin evidence that jumps to conclusions 3. Sensational press repeats claims from report without investigating 4. Government uses "evidence" of what now seems a big problem and a certain source to start a war 5. Profit...
I'd like some smart Slashdot reader to read the report and tell us what you think. It contains a lot of random facts and then draws some very unscientific conclusions. I think it was written starting with the conclusions, then finding facts to "support" it.
The Dutch version of this, Viditel, let me do online banking way before there was internet and when people were still going to big bank buildings to fill out forms to do anything with their account. Can't really remember what else I did with it... What could you do with 1200/75 baud speeds anyway?
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Can't all these generals just get on World of Warcraft of whatever online game and fight each other there, instead of wasting everyone's money on using our internet as their newest play yard?
1. Some company gets hacked
2. Some security company (Mandiant) investigates and makes a non-peer-reviewed report (PDF) with very thin evidence that jumps to conclusions
3. Sensational press repeats claims from report without investigating
4. Government uses "evidence" of what now seems a big problem and a certain source to start a war
5. Profit...
I'd like some smart Slashdot reader to read the report and tell us what you think. It contains a lot of random facts and then draws some very unscientific conclusions. I think it was written starting with the conclusions, then finding facts to "support" it.
The Dutch version of this, Viditel, let me do online banking way before there was internet and when people were still going to big bank buildings to fill out forms to do anything with their account. Can't really remember what else I did with it... What could you do with 1200/75 baud speeds anyway?
*Yawn*
Glad I'm not a taxpayer in that country.
Yes, encrypting Facebook wall posts and Twitter DMs is a great idea.