[88056] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: The Backhoe: A Real Cyberthreat?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joe Maimon)
Thu Jan 19 12:02:17 2006
Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2006 12:01:32 -0500
From: Joe Maimon <jmaimon@ttec.com>
To: Dennis Dayman <dennis@thenose.net>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <05d501c61d12$3c437af0$027ba8c0@LAPTOP>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
Dennis Dayman wrote:
> "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
>
>
>
This is really stupid. Assuming the terrorist actually have the dozens
of backhoes needed to completely erase meaningfull internet connectivity
in north america, they would probably prefer to use them to smash cars
and kill people on the interstate highways or something.
Terrorist inflict terror by killing people, not by forcing internet
explorer to display "page cannot be displayed".
Let us not assume that murderous terrorist are as dumb as people in DHS.
