DoS attacks on Healthcare.gov...

Tyson Sawyer tyson at j3.org
Mon Nov 18 13:29:56 EST 2013


Thanks!  ...I was hoping it was something like that.

Ty


On Mon, Nov 18, 2013 at 12:39 PM, David Rysdam <david at rysdam.org> wrote:
> Tyson Sawyer <tyson at j3.org> writes:
>> What is the "open source action" that she refers to and can be found
>> in the description of the segment?  Is the meaning of "open source"
>> being changed by some groups?
>
> She might be garbling a little. In the intelligence community, "open
> source" means "we didn't have Mata Hari anything, we found it from
> websites, books, newspapers", etc. Open sources.
>
> So she could be trying to say: "We know from open sources that at least
> one group is trying to DoS us" meaning something like "There is a group
> out there with the stated, public mission to try to DoS us" or "A recent
> newspaper investigation found a hacking group that blah blah blah" etc.



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Tyson D Sawyer

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