Comments on: Obama’s intelligence chief coughs up bad cyber-intel http://Vmyths.com/2009/02/14/blair/ Truth about computer security hysteria Thu, 03 Feb 2011 05:36:21 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: AmyRQA http://Vmyths.com/2009/02/14/blair/comment-page-1/#comment-112 AmyRQA Sun, 29 Mar 2009 22:04:21 +0000 http://Vmyths.com/?p=410#comment-112 Hello again, Rob. We last exchanged emails following the Nimda hit. Re: this column (from 3/22), do check out the NYT piece about Chinese cyberspying (link: http://preview.tinyurl.com/cvt3t6 ) Gee whiz, you'd think this was the first time anyone had uncovered a network of cyberspying not limited to phishing and spam-spewing zombie bots. In the 30 min. I've been online today, I've had 18 firewall hits, 16 from IPs in China, with five hits of a Slammer worm. Yes, all rebuffed, of course. Judging from the comments posted to this NYT piece, people seem clueless to simply shutting down ports on their tubes. You'd think that someone at the NYT would suggest checking out dshield.org, or at the very least do a public service of suggesting people understand what a firewall is? But that would require some effort by semi-Luddite readers to understand the means by which cyberspying is done. Maybe David Pogue can pick this up? Errr.. I should add, what do YOU think of Pogue? (Take your answer offline, if you'd like.) As always, your work is stellar, Rob. A welcome voice in the blizzard of hype and fear-mongering. Keep it up! Amy ( a long time fan ) Hello again, Rob.
We last exchanged emails following the Nimda hit.
Re: this column (from 3/22), do check out the NYT piece about Chinese cyberspying (link: http://preview.tinyurl.com/cvt3t6 )

Gee whiz, you’d think this was the first time anyone had uncovered a network of cyberspying not limited to phishing and spam-spewing zombie bots. In the 30 min. I’ve been online today, I’ve had 18 firewall hits, 16 from IPs in China, with five hits of a Slammer worm. Yes, all rebuffed, of course. Judging from the comments posted to this NYT piece, people seem clueless to simply shutting down ports on their tubes.

You’d think that someone at the NYT would suggest checking out dshield.org, or at the very least do a public service of suggesting people understand what a firewall is? But that would require some effort by semi-Luddite readers to understand the means by which cyberspying is done. Maybe David Pogue can pick this up?
Errr.. I should add, what do YOU think of Pogue? (Take your answer offline, if you’d like.)

As always, your work is stellar, Rob. A welcome voice in the blizzard of hype and fear-mongering. Keep it up!
Amy ( a long time fan )

]]> By: Gsparky http://Vmyths.com/2009/02/14/blair/comment-page-1/#comment-85 Gsparky Sun, 15 Feb 2009 01:04:01 +0000 http://Vmyths.com/?p=410#comment-85 "You’ll discover the NSC called me in March 2001 for details. Called my home. At 7am…" (RING!!!! RING!!!) ... muffled sound... heavy breathing... "Uh... hello?" "Yeah, hello, Rob! Do you mind if I call you Rob? Yeah, John at the National Security Council. Need some info on the Chinese and why they might want software from McAfee. Got any ideas? Thoughts? I mean, what could the Chinese want with this type of software?... Uh... Hello?!?? Rob...." (click) “You’ll discover the NSC called me in March 2001 for details. Called my home. At 7am…”

(RING!!!! RING!!!)
… muffled sound… heavy breathing…

“Uh… hello?”

“Yeah, hello, Rob! Do you mind if I call you Rob? Yeah, John at the National Security Council. Need some info on the Chinese and why they might want software from McAfee. Got any ideas? Thoughts? I mean, what could the Chinese want with this type of software?… Uh… Hello?!?? Rob….”

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