North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical RE: What Worked - What Didn't
On Mon, 17 Sep 2001, Randy Bush wrote: > > > The big winners were cable TV, email, packet networks and IM applications. > > The big losers with cell phones, circuit switching, PSTN, non-akamized > > news sites. > > no one went after the comms infrastructure. when they do, i suspect that > we will find the internet is extremely vulnerable. how many folk even > have md5 auth turned on their bgp peering sessions? what nievete! > > randy All US long-distance telephony infrastructure can be effectively disabled by a couple dozen or so backhoes digging in the right places. Even competing carriers often share cables. --vadim
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