[51808] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Vulnerbilities of Interconnection
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Maxwell)
Fri Sep 6 14:41:01 2002
Date: Fri, 6 Sep 2002 14:38:46 -0400 (EDT)
From: Greg Maxwell <gmaxwell@martin.fl.us>
To: batz <batsy@vapour.net>
Cc: Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net>, <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0209061655410.30102-100000@vapour.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Fri, 6 Sep 2002, batz wrote:
> To a network technician, it doesn't matter whether it's terrorists or cow
> tipping teenagers causing outages, as the depth of analysis required to
> fix the problem doesn't involve speculating about the identities and
> motives of the perpetrators.
It does matter. A cow might fall over and break a line card, but a savvy
attacker could give you a linecard that kills chassis such that they make
linecards that kill chassis.. When every piece of gear you have in a
reagon is dead due to poor failure containment, you'll be wishing you had
only suffered a chance failure.
