[126732] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: BT strike could affect internet and phone connections
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (andrew.wallace)
Thu May 27 20:58:09 2010
Date: Thu, 27 May 2010 17:57:57 -0700 (PDT)
From: "andrew.wallace" <andrew.wallace@rocketmail.com>
To: joelja@bogus.com
In-Reply-To: <17804.1274995187@localhost>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 1:17 AM, joel jaeggli <joelja@bogus.com> wrote:=0A>=
On 2010-05-27 10:42, andrew.wallace wrote:=0A>>=0A>> Look at it from an at=
tackers point of view. If you're thinking about=0A>> carrying out an electr=
onic jihad of some kind when is the best time?=0A>> A normal working day or=
during an engineers strike that only happens=0A>> once every 23 years?=0A>=
=0A> Not to put to fine a point on it, a normal working day is the best tim=
e to=0A> strike if you want to maximize the value of your attack.=0A=0AThe =
point I'm getting at is this strike of this nature is a threat to national =
security and the internet is supposed to be classed as critical infrastruct=
ure, so shouldn't it be against the law for them to strike?=0A=0AOr has the=
law in the UK not got as far as the United States has on deeming what's cr=
itical infrastructure yet?=0A=0AWe are far behind the United States and its=
about time we played catch-up.=0A=0A--=0AAndrew=0A=0Ahttp://sites.google.c=
om/site/n3td3v/=0A=0A=0A
