[49563] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Internet vulnerabilities
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Phil Rosenthal)
Thu Jul 4 18:59:13 2002
Reply-To: <pr@isprime.com>
From: "Phil Rosenthal" <pr@isprime.com>
To: <jlewis@packetnexus.com>, <nanog@merit.edu>
Date: Thu, 4 Jul 2002 18:58:14 -0400
In-Reply-To: <1188.192.168.120.61.1025822505.squirrel@www.packetnexus.com>
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The 13 year olds generally do it for the glory of being elite, not for
greater political agendas.
And, while I think that if terrorists wanted to, they could... I think
terrorists are more interested in collateral damage.
--Phil
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-nanog@merit.edu [mailto:owner-nanog@merit.edu] On Behalf Of
Jason Lewis
Sent: Thursday, July 04, 2002 6:42 PM
To: nanog@merit.edu
Subject: RE: Internet vulnerabilities
>
> 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
