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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: The Backhoe: A Real Cyberthreat?
Dennis Dayman wrote: This is really stupid. Assuming the terrorist actually have the dozens of backhoes needed to completely erase meaningfull internet connectivity in north america, they would probably prefer to use them to smash cars and kill people on the interstate highways or something."In 2004, Department of Homeland Security officials became fearful that terrorists might start using accidental dig-ups as a road map for deliberate attacks, and convinced the FCC to begin locking up previously public data on outages. In a commission filing, DHS argued successfully that revealing the details..." --MORE-- http://wired.com/news/technology/0,70040-0.html?tw=wn_tophead_1 -Dennis Terrorist inflict terror by killing people, not by forcing internet explorer to display "page cannot be displayed". Let us not assume that murderous terrorist are as dumb as people in DHS.
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