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Re: Sicily to Egypt undersea cable disruption

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Paul Ferguson)
Fri Feb 1 23:44:20 2008

From: "Paul Ferguson" <fergdawg@netzero.net>
Date: Sat, 2 Feb 2008 04:42:55 GMT
To: smb@cs.columbia.edu
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu


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- -- Steven M. Bellovin <smb@cs.columbia.edu> wrote:

>I hope you're right.  As I noted, by profession I'm paranoid.  I've
>even contemplated the uses of deliberate cable cuts; see
>http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb/papers/reroute.pdf for some thoughts
>from five years ago.
>
>But I hope you're right.
>

Oddly enough, the same sort of "discussion" is going on over on
Defense Tech:

http://www.defensetech.org/archives/003979.html

FYI,

- - ferg

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