[126692] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: BT strike could affect internet and phone connections
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (andrew.wallace)
Thu May 27 13:42:49 2010
Date: Thu, 27 May 2010 10:42:37 -0700 (PDT)
From: "andrew.wallace" <andrew.wallace@rocketmail.com>
To: Tim Franklin <tim@pelican.org>, nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <5086911.61274975289487.JavaMail.root@jennyfur.pelican.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 4:48 PM, Tim Franklin <tim@pelican.org> wrote:=0A>>=
Internet and phone connections across Britain could go into meltdown=0A>> =
as BT workers threaten their first national strike for 23 years...=0A>>=0A>=
> =E2=80=98Many business and residential phonelines could go out of action,=
and=0A>> if broadband crashes then thousands and thousands of people will =
find=0A>> their internet goes down.=E2=80=99=0A>>=0A>> http://www.metro.co.=
uk/news/828021-threat-of-bt-strike-could-affect-internet-and-phone-connecti=
ons=0A>=0A> I get a lovely vision from that of a real old-style manual swit=
chboard=0A> operator, frantically plugging internet connections together wi=
th patch=0A> cords as each SYN packet rings a little bell.=0A>=0A> Clearly =
BT engineers being on strike will stop broken things from=0A> being fixed[0=
]. I'm very unclear how it will cause things that are=0A> working today to=
suddenly "go into meltdown"...=0A>=0A=0ALook at it from an attackers point=
of view. If you're thinking about carrying out an electronic jihad of some=
kind when is the best time? A normal working day or during an engineers st=
rike that only happens once every 23 years?=0A=0A--=0AAndrew=0A=0Ahttp://si=
tes.google.com/site/n3td3v/=0A=0A=0A
