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Actually damage to the "net" could be done with relative ease. If you wanted to do some planning and a little staging work you could affect large amounts of traffic. Given recent press about large carriers moving their interconnects to a well known IX type company, all you would have to do is place some 7206VXR's (VXR == Very eXplosive Routers) in these co-lo's. Or servers, 5U server.... Nice and big. I wonder how much damage a couple of slots in a router full of Semtex would do. Then do that in multiple co-lo and use a IP packet as a trigger to pop them all..... Don't forget the spare parts depots as well. PS: All the money people spend on physical stuff to keep those on the outside out, would only help over pressure and other things on the inside. The issue is that Free Market places are going to do only as much as is needed to turn a profit, and not a penny more. This isn't the 60's or the 70's when ATT ran the infrastructure and had bunkers around the nation.... On Fri, Sep 06, 2002 at 05:41:29PM -0400, [email protected] wrote: > On Fri, 06 Sep 2002 14:01:24 PDT, Jeff Shultz <[email protected]> said: > > Coonts has an inflated idea of what an outage there would do the the > > internet... but there is a lot of other stuff fairly nearby, isn't > > there? > > *You* know that a hit on 60 Hudson would probably be worse (especially > considering all the OTHER stuff that would be in blast range). *I* know that. > The rest of the NANOG readership knows that. > > However, the organization based in Reston probably has on the order of > 1,500 times more subscribers than the NANOG list does... ;) > > > ...most of us have as our claim to fame the ability to talk to > > inanimate objects and convince them they want to listen to us. > > -- Valdis Kletnieks in a.s.r > > Wow - I'm famous. ;) > > -- > Valdis Kletnieks > Computer Systems Senior Engineer > Virginia Tech >
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