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Re: Vulnerbilities of Interconnection

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tim Thorne)
Fri Sep 6 15:55:45 2002

From: tim.thorne@btinternet.com (Tim Thorne)
To: nanog@merit.edu
Date: Fri, 06 Sep 2002 19:57:58 GMT
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.10.10209060953540.2016-100000@s1.yuriev.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu


alex@yuriev.com wrote:

>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?=20

OK, what if 60 Hudson, 25 Broadway, LinX and AmsIX were all put out of
commission?

What about the major sites terminating undersea cables in an effort to
isolate the US?

Or major satellite uplink points?

Or all of them?

--
Tim

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