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Fighting the worms of mass destruction (Economist)Fighting the worms of mass destruction (Economist)Posted Dec 1, 2003 23:14 UTC (Mon) by foo@share-foo.com (guest, #7940)In reply to: Fighting the worms of mass destruction (Economist) by labkun Parent article: Fighting the worms of mass destruction (Economist) The insecure nodes are everywhere, but if an american wants to attack another american they will first exploit someone in a country like Korea to obfuscate their identity and limit the ability to trace the damage back to them. This is very common. Part of the reason this works is due to political, legal, geographic, cultural and administrative boundries that make it nearly impossible trace attacks that a proxied through countries with which we have historically had many comunication problems with. This isn't happening because countries like Korea are bad, in fact, they are scape goats for our own evil doers. In fact, I would say that if I were a Korean who wanted to attack another Korean, I would first proxy off someone my government had communication problems with too. The idea being that all logs or info that may have existed to link me to evil deeds would long since have expired way before the two jurisdictions ever start communicating with eachother and sharing info. In fact, you can be pretty safe in assuming that in the rare event that Korean and the US law enforcement agencies cooperate, they will have much bigger fish to fry than the average hacker. What I was trying to point out is that this will still work even after the cracker ass politicians here in the states tatoo barcodes on everyones ass under the guise of protection from anonymity.
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