[51736] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Vulnerbilities of Interconnection
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (alex@yuriev.com)
Thu Sep 5 16:01:45 2002
Date: Thu, 5 Sep 2002 16:01:02 -0400 (EDT)
From: alex@yuriev.com
To: Dave Israel <davei@algx.net>
Cc: sgorman1@gmu.edu, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <15735.46444.905713.394488@biohazard.demon.algx.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
>
> The thing is, the major cuts are not "attacks;" the backhoe operators
> aren't gunning for our fiber (no matter how much it seems like they
> are). If I wanted to disrupt traffic, intentionally and maliciously,
> I would not derail a train into a fiber path. Doing so would be very
> difficult, and the legal ramifications (murder, destruction of
> property, etc, etc) are quite clear and severe. However, if I
> ping-bomb you from a thousand "0wn3d" PCs on cable modems, I never had
> to leave my parents' basement, I'm harder to trace by normal police
> methods, and the question of which laws that can be applied to me is
> less clear.
This fails to address how this affects someone who has no problem with legal
ramfications - i.e. a terrorist.
Alex
