[88052] in North American Network Operators' Group
The Backhoe: A Real Cyberthreat?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dennis Dayman)
Thu Jan 19 11:04:42 2006
From: "Dennis Dayman" <dennis@thenose.net>
To: <nanog@nanog.org>
Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2006 10:05:57 -0600
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"In 2004, Department of Homeland Security officials became fearful that
terrorists might start using accidental dig-ups as a road map for deliberate
attacks, and convinced the FCC to begin locking up previously public data on
outages. In a commission filing, DHS argued successfully that revealing the
details..."
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-Dennis