[49561] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Internet vulnerabilities
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jason Lewis)
Thu Jul 4 18:42:33 2002
Date: Thu, 4 Jul 2002 18:41:45 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Jason Lewis" <jlewis@packetnexus.com>
To: <nanog@merit.edu>
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> I'm actually more worried about script/packet kiddies.
>
> 13 year olds with some scripting knowledge rarely know the financial
> cost of their "fun".
>
Does the possibility of these 13 year olds being recruited exist? I think
so.
I think most people are grouping terrorist into the "strap a bomb to your
body and commit suicide" stereotype. Is there a possibility that
intelligent terrorists exist? Or even people that have the knowledge and
sympathize with them? OBL used a satellite phone, they found laptops in
Afghanistan, there is evidence they are using the web to transmit
information to each other. I think someone out there has a clue about
computers.
Crippling the entire net may be impossible, but it sure sounds like a well
planned out series of attacks could do some serious damage.
jas
