Always Learning wrote: > On Fri, 2017-01-06 at 12:54 -0500, m.roth at 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. mark