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Re: Bin Laden Associate Warns of Cyberattack

  • From: Kurt Erik Lindqvist
  • Date: Wed Nov 20 13:34:45 2002 


9/11 showed us that, despite the relatively concentrated POPs in NYC,
the

Internet was still the only communications medium that survived the

attack --and it was largely unaffected, even for users located in NYC

itself!



Does of us who where providing emergency transit to providers that
where completely isolated knows that that was more because of luck than
actual planning.




CAIDA tells us that over 25% of the Internet must be removed before

connectivity degrades. I'm quite a cynic, but I doubt the CIA could
pull

off that kind of damage, much less al Qaeda.




I am not sure what you mean with 25% of the Internet? What connectivity
would degrade? From where to where?





- kurtis -