Malware "best practices"

[Fred]

On Thursday 27 July 2006 10:27, bmcculley at rcn.com uttered thusly:
> ---- Original message ----
...
> >   Today, phone systems are pretty much insecure.  Some
> >   security systems use the same network as everything
> >   else.  I wouldn't be surprised to see something like
> >   the above in the next 5 years.
>
> That prediction rings uncomfortably true.  Along such lines:
>
> It's not for public attribution, but I recently attended a
> briefing by someone from a government agency with the same
> initials as the Culinary Institute of America (*) that
> included a prediction that all hell would break loose in our
> domestic cyberspace simultaneously with any attempt by the
> Chinese to exploit nuclear distractions in Iran/Korea by
> annexing Taiwan by force, as a means of distraction and delay
> in our decision making and response.
> (*) circumlocution to evade carnivorous traffic analyzers.
>
> fifth generation warfare?

Humans will never learn to live in peace (I pray that I am wrong here). Oh 
well. Perhaps the way to induce peaceful living would be to give the 
cyber-equivalent of the thermonuclear bomb to everyone. Kinda like giving 
everyone a lit match whilst standing in a pool of petrol.

No one would be so foolish as to drop a match, right? :-) Well, as one 
particular song goes, "We'll make great pets!" Or the self-cooked Culinary 
delights for Interested Aliens...

But seriously, folks ---

China is definitely the one to watch, because they are the ones with the 
*real* power -- economic power over the US. The US may "talk big", but will 
quickly roll over and whimper like a puppy whenever China seriously 
threatens to flex its muscle. There is a solid reason many feel the need to 
don "America is Strong" bumper stickers on their dented pickup-trucks amidst 
tattered Star-spangled Banners flapping in the empty winds of summer. They 
say that if you repeat a lie often enough people will believe it...

America is Strong.
America is Strong.
America is Strong.
America is Strong.

Believe it yet? Well, I'd better shut up lest Homeland Insecurity catches 
wind of me and -- hold on, a knock at the door...

And, of course, China's alliance with Russia and various other countries that 
currently despise the US, well, let's say it makes for a rather fetching 
state of affairs!

...
> We live in interesting times.  Hopefully not too interesting!

Very interesting, I'm afraid. And the supreme irony being that the very 
country that aphorism is from may be the one to make it so.

Well, brushing up on my Mandarin...

-Freedom Fred