[attrition] Reporting terrorism, affect your credit? (we're doomed)

[security curmudgeon]

http://attrition.org/security/rant/fbi01.html

Reporting terrorism, affect your credit? (we're doomed)
Tue Aug 11 05:49:16 EDT 2009
security curmudgeon

Right as I am about to wind down for the night, ISN rolls in, filling the 
inbox of most people before they wake. One of the last articles caught my 
attention and I read the first few paragraphs.
Sandia to boot behemoth botnet

This article (full GCN article) was disturbing to say the least. A couple 
of academia researchers, cut-off from the real world, out of touch with 
reality and how the 'world' works, decide they need to control a bot net. 
Not a 10k node botnet, not a 100k node botnet.. but a 1 million node 
notnet. In case you haven't read lately, the threat of a botnet is 
serious. Some men are charged in botnet related crimes, and the threat of 
a million-pc botnet is a threat to consumers. (Still don't believe? Google 
'botnet threat').

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Uh, really? "Terms and conditions"? I actually have to agree to all of 
this about "notification to my credit card company" and any complaint is 
"initiated at the discretion of the law enforcement and/or regulatory 
agency receiving the complaint information"? In short, there is a 
"click-wrap" license invoked on reporting a threat to national security 
that may relate to my credit, and that law enforcement MAY initiate an 
investigation. If I call 911, they initiate an investigation even if it's 
a hangup. Yet telling the FBI about a threat to national security MAY 
initiate an investiation?

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