HITB08 – Marcus Ranum Keynote on CyberWar..

The text is a critical review of Marcus Ranum’s Hack in the Box 2008 talk asserting that cyberwar is overhyped, highlighting pointed challenges from the audience—especially Roberto Preatoni of WabiSabiLabi—that expose weaknesses in Ranum’s narrow definitions and arguments. It characterizes the session as contrarian and disappointing, noting that the Q&A undermined the speaker’s position rather than providing substantive cyber threat intelligence or incident details.