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Re: Vulnerbilities of Interconnection
- From: alex
- Date: Thu Sep 05 16:03:35 2002
>
> The thing is, the major cuts are not "attacks;" the backhoe operators
> aren't gunning for our fiber (no matter how much it seems like they
> are). If I wanted to disrupt traffic, intentionally and maliciously,
> I would not derail a train into a fiber path. Doing so would be very
> difficult, and the legal ramifications (murder, destruction of
> property, etc, etc) are quite clear and severe. However, if I
> ping-bomb you from a thousand "0wn3d" PCs on cable modems, I never had
> to leave my parents' basement, I'm harder to trace by normal police
> methods, and the question of which laws that can be applied to me is
> less clear.
This fails to address how this affects someone who has no problem with legal
ramfications - i.e. a terrorist.
Alex
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