[iwar] Infowar means NOTHING to Joe SixPack

From: Rob Rosenberger (junkmail@barnowl.com)
Date: 2002-08-11 16:20:22

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I just uploaded the audio from my opening keynote this week at CERT
conference 2002.  Two MP3 files, 55:25 total time:

http://Vmyths.com/mm/rants/2002/certconf.asx
   Part 1: "You mean NOTHING to Joe SixPack"
   Part 2: "Security experts need to lighten up"
           followed by a Q&A session

I've wanted to do a keynote like this for a looooong time.  I've wanted to
put security experts in their place by telling them just how little they
mean to Joe SixPack.  You'll notice I start out with comedy & laughter ...
but the giggles slowly dissolve as I venture toward Joe SixPack's
preoccupation with physical terrorism after 9/11.

An important quote near the end of part 1:

"This is a picture of a woman [who jumped from a WTC tower]...  SPLAT!  Nine
seconds to die.  Not once did she think about you.  Not once did she think
about 'wow, what's happening to all my computers on the 78th floor as I
plummet to my death?'  Not once did she care.  Not once did the people who
were watching this care about you.  That's what's really sad here.  And what
you want to do as a society ... is you want to take billions of dollars away
from people who watched the towers collapse.  Who ran from a 25mph
20-story-tall billowing wall of smoke.  You want to take billions of dollars
away from them and you want to put it into a cyber-terrorism pot.  And you
want to take money out of that, and you want to protect them from
electrons..."

In part 1, I bashed a speaker in the audience who "verbally confirmed" the
mafia now does hits over the Internet.  I also talked about how Al Qaeda
might exploit the computer security industry (at least twice!) as idiotic
pawns in future physical terrorism events.  "Fool me once, shame on you.
Fool me twice, shame on me..."  In part 3, I described the co-dependent
relationship between CERT & NIPC, plus I laid heavily into CERT director
Richard Pethia.  (Listen for my "hey Richard, as one woman to another..."
quip.)

Everyone who studies iwar should listen to this audio.  Enough said.

Rob

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