User: gepr

Re:Right General?

On: Air Force Cyber Command General Answers Slashdot Questions

Honestly, I kind of felt like the response was a subtle jab at how silly and stupid the question was. The question wasn't silly or stupid. And the answer from General Lord, far from vacuous, demonstrates that he either doesn't understand or wasn't allowed to express the importance of testing and/or HWIL simulation. A testbed of machines/networks that are hardened to the best of their ability, using a suite of hardening methods, and made available to the public (or, even better, to particular subcultures) explicitly as a challenge, would be neither criminal nor even humorous. At best, such a testbed would provide a way for the Cyber Command to test emergent behavior in such co-evolutionary situations. At worst, it could provide a honey pot to identify leads on new recruits and/or threats.