[53734] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Cyberattack FUD
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Vadim Antonov)
Thu Nov 21 23:13:44 2002
Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2002 20:12:20 -0800 (PST)
From: Vadim Antonov <avg@exigengroup.com>
To: Barry Shein <bzs@world.std.com>
Cc: <nanog@nanog.org>
In-Reply-To: <15837.13855.781273.45591@world.std.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Thu, 21 Nov 2002, Barry Shein wrote:
> The attack on the WTC not only took out the WTC, it essentially has
> taken out our airline industry.
It may be argued that airline industry has taken out itself by first not
having elementary precautions (like closed cockpit doors and having pilots
to carry guns, with adequate training) which are standard in less
complacent parts of the world, and then by making life truly miserable for
those who wish or have to travel, in a fit of post-disaster paranoia.
It is not enemies who are savvy, it is managers who are stupid. Like, the
"crash airplane into some high-value target" scenario was well-aired more
than decade ago - and it is only due to total incompetence of airline
security people that this was allowed to happen. I hope that US airlines
go out of business and El Al moves in; isn't that what competition is
supposed to be about?
The same holds for the Internet (with special thanks to the toothless
antimonopoly enforcement which allowed operating systems to become a
monoculture).
--vadim
