[49540] in North American Network Operators' Group
Internet vulnerabilities
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jason Lewis)
Thu Jul 4 13:57:30 2002
Date: Thu, 4 Jul 2002 13:56:54 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Jason Lewis" <jlewis@packetnexus.com>
To: <nanog@merit.edu>
Reply-To: jlewis@packetnexus.com
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
There is a lot of news lately about terrorist groups doing recon on
potential targets. The stories got me thinking.
What are the real threats to the global Internet?
I am looking for anything that might be a potential attack point. I don't
want to start a flame war, but any interesting or even way out there idea
is welcome.
Is it feasible that a coordinated attack could shutdown the entire net? I
am not talking DDoS. What if someone actually had the skills to disrupt
BGP on a widescale?
jas
