RE: MITNICK & THE TCP SEQUENCE NUMBER ATTACK ON SHIMOMURA (L

[gblolmxb @ ibmmail . com]

     Scott Rickard wrote
  
     >>Globally, the intelligence and counterintelligence businesses are a
     multi-trillion dollar industry
  
     I think this is somewhat of an over exaggeration, certainly for the UK
     where the latest figures put intelligence spending at around 1% of
     Government spending, i.e. less than 0.5% of the GNP (which is around
     L700 billion)
  
     As an interesting aside, this figure has not gone down despite the
     advent of 'peace' in N. Ireland.
  
     Mark.