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My explanation accounts for suicide bombers in the statement: "Even terrorist that will die to kill will probably not die to inconvenience." This does not presume a western value system, either, as somebody suggested. Many a terrorist will gladly give their lives to destroy a hated enemy, or to terrify them, or to change their way of life. I cannot believe, however, that there are people who will give their lives to increase the download times for porn for a few days. -Dave On 9/5/2002 at 13:49:29 -0700, Al Rowland said: > To reinforce a dissenting opinion, And your explanation accounts for > suicide bombers how? I would think a smoking hole in the ground > containing a train or whatever, particularly if lose of life is > involved, would be much more appealing to the motivations of most > terrorists than a couple of computers with blue screens of death. I > would think 9-11 would provide a compelling example of current terrorist > practice. > > Just my 2� > > Best regards, > _________________________ > Alan Rowland > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of > Dave Israel > Sent: Thursday, September 05, 2002 1:29 PM > To: [email protected] > Cc: Dave Israel; [email protected]; [email protected] > Subject: 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. > > > -- Dave Israel Senior Manager, DNE SE
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