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Re: [Full-disclosure] Fwd: cnn.com - Homeland Security seeks cyber counterattack system (Einstein 3.0)



What?  I think I missed something here.

On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 1:53 PM, Bruce Ediger <eballen1@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Mon, 6 Oct 2008, Valdis.Kletnieks@xxxxxx wrote:
>
> > Hint 2: If botnets in home computers were so easy to shut down, why are
> > there so many miscreants still using them for nefarious purposes?
>
> Easy.  For the same reason that the NSA used to have (circa 1985) big,
> 3-ring
> binders full of 0-days for VMS, PR1MOS, AOS, NOS/BE, VM/CMS and System III:
>
> The NSA and CIA and GCHQ (a.k.a. "ECHELON") use them to get in to places
> they
> wouldn't ordinarily get, or for other purposes, like that bank robber used
> Craigslist to recruit involuntary henchmen.
>
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