[governance] Re: How to Prevent Cyber War

[John Curran]

On Feb 3, 2010, at 7:31 PM, Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote:
> ...
> I do not get the point, technically speaking. If the attacker has
> access to "a large scale hacked server farm", then he does not need to
> disguise the IP addresses of the attacking machines since they are not
> officially his machines.

Yes, but once you uncover a command and control server IP address 
for said botnet farm, you need to move very quickly if you want to 
block or intercept that traffic.

/John

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