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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..."

--MORE--

http://wired.com/news/technology/0,70040-0.html?tw=wn_tophead_1

-Dennis



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