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Re: CIA Fears UmpTeen InfoNukes
Mike M Nally wrote:
>By the way, there was a thing in the Yahoo/Reuters feed about "attacks"
>on DoD computers; apparently British police arrested a "hacker" the
>other day. Anyway, the article included a claim that there have been
>250,000 attempted break-ins on DoD computers over the past year.
>
>Does anybody know how they count
that?
>
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Probably the same way other things are counted when used to make a
political point (# of homeless people, # of date rape victims, etc.). Make
a wild-ass guess based on a very small sample, then multiply by a factor of
10 or 100. I think lying with statistics has become a national pastime
recently. I tend to not trust numbers issued by folks who stand to gain
from the use of the numbers.
Clay
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