[49548] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Internet vulnerabilities
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jason Lewis)
Thu Jul 4 14:41:19 2002
Date: Thu, 4 Jul 2002 14:40:46 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Jason Lewis" <jlewis@packetnexus.com>
To: <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <4401.2051614012.1025807006.xxx@mail.everydns.net>
Reply-To: jlewis@packetnexus.com
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
> I think the media talk about "taking down the Internet" are kind of
> bogus.
>
> Nobody has ever died because they couldn't check their email.
>
> If the net went down for an hour, a day, or even a week I think that my
> mom and the rest of the non "glued-to-their-terminal" world would
> somehow struggle through and sustain a normal daily routine.
>
> -davidu [who probably would not survive a week long net outage ;) ]
How many companies base profits on their internet connection? While you
might survive, there would be a lot of money lost. Disrupting the economy
seems to be the goal.
