[88058] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: The Backhoe: A Real Cyberthreat?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Robert Boyle)
Thu Jan 19 12:51:28 2006
Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2006 12:51:00 -0500
To: Joe Maimon <jmaimon@ttec.com>
From: Robert Boyle <robert@tellurian.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <43CFC5EC.4010107@ttec.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
At 12:01 PM 1/19/2006, you wrote:
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.
Agreed. However, if you disappear now, we'll know why! :P
-Robert
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