[iwar] Re: Chinese IW-one more thought

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Date: 2001-08-01 05:47:46


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Subject: [iwar] Re: Chinese IW-one more thought
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--- In iwar@y..., "e.r." <fastflyer28@y...> wrote:
> Leo, the Chinese have always liked quantity over quality.  
> For ex, they
> might train their DO agents a total of two weeks for one mission.

IMHO, humint is important, but it does not analogize with sigint or IO 
very well.  The tools and the expertise are more 
dominant--skills and training our universities are very eager to 
provide.

> That would make me feel too replaceable.  The low skill level of
> their human ops is well documented. They have gotten computer a 
> bit better-with out
> help in training chinese "students".  I am, however, still 
> unconvienced that their IWAR crew is anything more than marginal 
> quality at best.

It only takes a few bright starts to provide tools that others can 
use.  Once the few are able to provide tools, methodologies, 
algorithms, etc., the computer science geeks will be able to easily 
tool up to new tasks.  I have a Chinese colleague at school (a fellow 
Ph.D. student in computer security) and I have every confidence that 
there is nothing that I know that he could not also learn 
(alright--maybe not a very high lower bound:).  

> Does notpreclude then from going high quantity to solve their 
> problem and it becomes our problem as we are few in number with 
> sorry funding.

The only thing the numbers game helps with here is that the law of 
large numbers is on your side: if you have enough people you will 
eventually get a smart one.



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