[51772] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Vulnerbilities of Interconnection
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (alex@yuriev.com)
Fri Sep 6 10:01:46 2002
Date: Fri, 6 Sep 2002 10:01:45 -0400 (EDT)
From: alex@yuriev.com
To: Pawlukiewicz Jane <pawlukiewicz_jane@bah.com>
Cc: sgorman1@gmu.edu, "William B. Norton" <wbn@equinix.com>,
nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <3D78A987.C82268FE@bah.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
> > Is there a general consensus that cyber/internal attacks are more
> > effective/dangerous than physical attacks. Anecdotally it seems the
> > largest Internet downages have been from physical cuts or failures.
>
> It depends on what you consider and internet outage. Or how you define
> that. IMHO.
Lets bring this discussion to a some common ground -
What kind of implact on the global internet would we see should we observe
nearly simultaneous detonation of 500 kilogramms of high explosives at N of the
major known interconnect facilities?
Alex
