Security Incidents: RE: Phatbox: Media Hype? Scare Tactics?

["Schmehl, Paul L" <pauls () utdallas edu>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu [mailto:Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu] 
> Sent: Wednesday, March 17, 2004 2:25 PM
> To: Joe Stewart
> Cc: incidents () securityfocus com
> Subject: Re: Phatbox: Media Hype? Scare Tactics? 
>
> Which is worse - one black hat with 100K bots at their 
> disposal, or 100 black hats with 1K bots each?
Which came first?  The chicken?  Or the egg?

And why is there air?  :-)

Paul Schmehl (pauls () utdallas edu)
Adjunct Information Security Officer
The University of Texas at Dallas
AVIEN Founding Member
http://www.utdallas.edu/~pauls/  

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