[54175] in North American Network Operators' Group
'Digital Pearl Harbor' May Be No Real Threat
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sean Donelan)
Mon Dec 16 01:41:50 2002
Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2002 01:41:17 -0500 (EST)
From: Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com>
To: nanog@merit.edu
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
Wall Street Journal
Boomtown by Lee Gomes
(subscription required)
http://online.wsj.com/article/0,,SB1039990777685324633,00.html
"As a result, homeland-security conferences, newsletters, sales offices
and the like have become a standard part of the technology-business
landscape. In the prototypical presentation, a salesperson describes
some crucial part of the high-tech infrastructure -- for example, the
router that moves messages around in a computer network -- and then
asks, "Imagine what would happen if terrorists got their hands on THAT!"
The better question, though, is, "How likely is it that terrorists would
actually get their hands on that?"
