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Cyber attack Florida

by on17 July 2009

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Confusing messages from the US

US republicans
have been call for the government to launch an immediate cyber attack on the servers of North Korea. (Both of them? sub.ed.)

The call by Peter Hoekstra who is the lead Republican on the House Intelligence Committee, said the US should conduct a “show of force or strength” against North Korea for a supposed role in a round of attacks that hit numerous government and commercial websites this week.

Hoekstra, speaking on the conservative America’s Morning News radio show, produced by the Washington Times newspaper, said that “some of the best people in America” had been investigating the attacks and concluded that most likely “all the fingers” point to North Korea as the culprit.

It is a pity that Hoekstra did not follow the case a little more closely. The “best people in Amerca” soon tracked the hacks to a server in Britain. Fortunately no one responded to this bit of information and launch a cyber attack on Blighty and bring to an end the cosy relationship and NATO all in one fell swoop.

After getting on the blower to the UK ISP which ran the server, the “best people in the US” found that in actual control server was sitting in Florida, in Land of the Free. If the US government does listen to Hoekstra's call and does launch cyber attacks against the nation which launched them, things are looking bad for Florida, if such a thing were possible. (Al Gore probably wouldn't mind. sub.ed.)
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