North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: Vulnerbilities of Interconnection
On 9/5/2002 at 16:01:02 -0400, [email protected] said: > > > > 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. Even a terrorist will tend towards things that allow him to continue to be a terrorist. If I can do X amount of damage, and get caught, or do X amount of damage, and not get caught, then he'll do the second. Even a terrorist that will die to kill will probably not die to inconvenience.
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