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Re: Vulnerbilities of Interconnection

  • From: Kurt Erik Lindqvist
  • Date: Mon Sep 16 07:16:49 2002 






That's a good question. Is the net really a criticial resource? If a
life

gets saved through involvement of the internet, it is news. Lifes are

saved by calling for assistence through the telephone network every day

all over the world as a matter of routine.



Well, it's more a question of what you want the Internet to become? We
can't expect to

have better quality than the most critical application that we run over
it....






It's not how much something is used, but how bad it would be to go
without

it. During september 11th, the phone service didn't work very well, and

the internet did a lot better. I think just about anyone would have
traded

the latter for the former in a second.



I think we are using the word "emergency" with different meanings here.
Assume that a nation is cut of from it's

Internet access in one way or the other due to war, natural disasters
etc. In these scenarios a not functioning

Internet might actually be a problem due to the time of the outage.






In the event of a emergency, I would very much like to be as
able to reach my bank via the net as walking into their offices.



Yes, because banks are such a critical resource when there is an
emergency...






If there was a natural disaster and I could not reach my banks office I
would very much like to

be able to use the on-line bank instead...






 that was in the good old days

when business was booming. I'm sure they're cutting corners left right
and

center at the moment.






Agreed - and this is where I think we have real problem....

- kurtis -