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What's a reasonable attack surface? (was: Re: wet-behind-the-ears

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jay Ashworth)
Tue Sep 20 21:11:16 2011

Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2011 21:11:10 -0400 (EDT)
From: Jay Ashworth <jra@baylink.com>
To: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
In-Reply-To: <23249.1316552835@turing-police.cc.vt.edu>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Valdis Kletnieks" <Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu>

> As long as there is *A* failure mode? Hmm. <invents a movie-plot failure mode
> involving crazed ninjas with katanas loose in a switch room at one provider>.
> Yep, it's unlikely crazed ninjas will attack the switch rooms at both
> providers.

I too am a Schneier fan.  But terrorists watch movies, too.

Cheers,
-- jr 'Once is happenstance...' a
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