Always Learning wrote:
On Fri, 2017-01-06 at 12:54 -0500, m.roth@5-cent.us wrote:
James B. Byrne wrote:
On Thu, January 5, 2017 17:23, Always Learning wrote:
Cyber attacks are gradually replacing armed conflicts.
Better fight with bits than blood.
Yes, but... attacks on the friggin' IoT could result in lots of blood.
Or, less so, what do you mean all the rail lines have been knocked out of commission for a week, and we can't get food to the eastern half of the country? Or power? <snip>
Query: How did the Reds get into the Democrats computer systems ? Hope
it wasn't a Redhat/Centos system but an 'open Windoze' set-up.
In at least one of the several, it was a phishing attack. In another case, someone responded slowly to a query... and had a typo saying the *reverse* of what they meant to say.
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