[53681] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Bin Laden Associate Warns of Cyberattack
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Kurt Erik Lindqvist)
Wed Nov 20 13:31:42 2002
Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2002 19:30:13 +0100
Cc: <Michael.Dillon@radianz.com>, <nanog@nanog.org>
To: "Stephen Sprunk" <ssprunk@cisco.com>
From: Kurt Erik Lindqvist <kurtis@kurtis.pp.se>
In-Reply-To: <019101c28fee$a3094f80$a8876540@amer.cisco.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
> 9/11 showed us that, despite the relatively concentrated POPs in NYC,
> the
> Internet was still the only communications medium that survived the
> attack --and it was largely unaffected, even for users located in NYC
> itself!
Does of us who where providing emergency transit to providers that
where completely isolated knows that that was more because of luck than
actual planning.
> CAIDA tells us that over 25% of the Internet must be removed before
> connectivity degrades. I'm quite a cynic, but I doubt the CIA could
> pull
> off that kind of damage, much less al Qaeda.
>
I am not sure what you mean with 25% of the Internet? What connectivity
would degrade? From where to where?
- kurtis -
