Comments on: Small Bits: Long tunnels, Marburg virus, Cyber Cons

By: adam

adam — Sun, 27 Mar 2005 15:38:53 +0000

The book The Great Escape (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/044921068) is well worth reading. As you say, managing the dirt is amongst the biggest problems. At Sagan (http://www.1940.co.uk/history/books/greate/greate.htm), the prisoners dispersed it during exercise periods, from bags concealled in their pants. Everyone would shuffle to create dust swirls, and they had strings that would allow them to open and close the bags when their hands were in their pockets.
It’s remarkable how clever people can be when they have nothing else to do but plot.

By: Simson Garfinkel

Simson Garfinkel — Sun, 27 Mar 2005 15:35:17 +0000

Oh, I thought that Marbug was a computer virus…

By: Simson Garfinkel

Simson Garfinkel — Sun, 27 Mar 2005 15:32:30 +0000

Amazing. Where did they put all the dirt? I can’t believe that they threw it all down the toilets.
And why didn’t the US people figure this out?

By: Chris Walsh

Chris Walsh — Sun, 27 Mar 2005 15:01:38 +0000

Considering only the quoted portion of Cooper’s rant, I would ask why InfoSec should be any different?
Outside of the civil engineering nerds who live and breathe the arcana of dam-building, nobody cares about advances in cement-based materials science, either, but I don’t see anyone surprised by it. The same can be said for nearly any highly-technical profession.
This is master of the obvious material.