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> -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]]On Behalf Of > Timothy R. McKee > Sent: September 24, 2001 8:29 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: RE: Points of Failure (was Re: National infrastructure asset) > Importance: High > > > I know it's difficult to refrain from comment, but let's try to remember > that the bad guys read this list too. While they may not have > the knowledge > of critical communication infrastructure points, they can > certainly find and > target them if we point them in the right direction. > This pertains not only to our side of the ponds, but to overseas as well. > We all know where the 'soft targets' of our infrastructures are located - > let's keep it to ourselves or, at the very least, within small private > discussion groups where everyone knows everyone and not on the > public list. Why would security by obscurity work in this case? Any terrorist with a quarter of a clue can find out the addresses of enough critical buildings to cause a huge disaster in about 30 minutes (*hint* Find sites for providers that have hardware coloed in major buildings and that list the addresses of these POPs. No names will be provided, but I have at least one in my mind. Repeat this process with some major peering points, a listing of which is quite easy to find). I might add that it's much easier to find this out than it is to crash some airplanes into prominent US buildings; I doubt a 30 minute Google search would tell you how to pilot airplanes, but perhaps I'm just a little naive. Vivien -- Vivien M. [email protected] Assistant System Administrator Dynamic DNS Network Services http://www.dyndns.org/
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