[126715] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: BT strike could affect internet and phone connections
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (andrew.wallace)
Thu May 27 16:00:08 2010
Date: Thu, 27 May 2010 12:57:42 -0700 (PDT)
From: "andrew.wallace" <andrew.wallace@rocketmail.com>
To: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
In-Reply-To: <11023.1274984586@localhost>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 7:23 PM, <Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu> wrote:=0A> On T=
hu, 27 May 2010 10:42:37 PDT, "andrew.wallace" said:=0A>> Look at it from a=
n attackers point of view. If you're thinking about carrying=0A>> out an el=
ectronic jihad of some kind when is the best time? A normal working=0A>> da=
y or during an engineers strike that only happens once every 23 years?=0A>=
=0A> A co-worker of mine was asked by somebody high in the US government in=
late=0A> 1999 if he was worried about attackers trying to pull something o=
n New Year's.=0A> Randy thought for a moment, and said "Hell no. There's go=
ing to be 3 zillion=0A> engineers and programmers watching for any minor hi=
ccup that day. The time to=0A> pull something would be late January, when e=
verybody's relaxed and stopped=0A> worrying".=0A>=0A> The room got very qui=
et... :)=0A>=0A>=0A=0AAre you *still* using the same threat models as you w=
ere 11 years ago?=0A=0A--=0AAndrew=0A=0Ahttp://sites.google.com/site/n3td3v=
/=0A=0A=0A
