[82360] in North American Network Operators' Group
Google Said..... Was: RE: London incidents
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Hannigan, Martin)
Wed Jul 13 01:27:18 2005
Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2005 01:26:41 -0400
From: "Hannigan, Martin" <hannigan@verisign.com>
To: "Steve Sobol" <sjsobol@JustThe.net>,
"North American Networking & Offtopic Gripes" <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-nanog@merit.edu [mailto:owner-nanog@merit.edu]On Behalf Of
> Steve Sobol
> Sent: Tuesday, July 12, 2005 10:25 PM
> To: North American Networking & Offtopic Gripes
> Subject: Re: London incidents
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> Jim Popovitch wrote:
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> > I think the world has shown that cellphones have been used=20
> over and over
> > to detonate explosive devices. Why wait for it to be proved again
> > before doing something? AFAIK "Emergency Only" mode allows for 911
> > calls,=20
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> And means nothing if power is cut to the cell sites and you=20
> can't connect to=20
> anything. Emergency mode only works where there is a signal.
Good points. And thanks for not saying "Google said...".=20
Independant sources are not listed in google. :-).
[ObSecOp: FWIW, you can google how a cell phone can be used as a =
detonator
and it does tend to demonstrate some thought on controlling cell
signals as security policy...THAT is a good use for google.. -M< =
]
ObTechnoPoliButOffTopic:
If the UK GOV makes a tacit denial of such an event=20
that would hold more[1] credibility than them pointing=20
at others saying they didn't do it.=20
[1] Slightly more, depending upon how high up.
-M<
