[42519] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: What Worked - What Didn't
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Vadim Antonov)
Mon Sep 17 16:03:52 2001
Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2001 12:56:24 -0700 (PDT)
From: Vadim Antonov <avg@exigengroup.com>
To: nanog@merit.edu
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On Mon, 17 Sep 2001, Randy Bush wrote:
>
> > The big winners were cable TV, email, packet networks and IM applications.
> > The big losers with cell phones, circuit switching, PSTN, non-akamized
> > news sites.
>
> no one went after the comms infrastructure. when they do, i suspect that
> we will find the internet is extremely vulnerable. how many folk even
> have md5 auth turned on their bgp peering sessions? what nievete!
>
> randy
All US long-distance telephony infrastructure can be effectively disabled
by a couple dozen or so backhoes digging in the right places. Even
competing carriers often share cables.
--vadim
