Re: Al-Qaeda Plot to Bring Down UK Internet?

[vicky rode // <vicky.rode () gmail com>]

Barry Greene (bgreene) wrote:
> After the Baltimore Tunnel Fire, the NE US Power Outage, and 9/11's
> Collateral Damage on the Verizon exchange, SPs, IXPs, and others have
> been thinking through physical redundancy layers. This is interesting,
> but the backhoe and maintenance injected trouble (MIT) is still the
> Internet's biggest threat. 
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...or announce routes w/ very short AS paths :-)


regards,
/virendra

> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: funsec-bounces () linuxbox org 
> > [mailto:funsec-bounces () linuxbox org] On Behalf Of Gadi Evron
> > Sent: Monday, March 12, 2007 5:28 PM
> > To: Fergie
> > Cc: funsec () linuxbox org
> > Subject: Re: [funsec] Al-Qaeda Plot to Bring Down UK Internet?
> >
> > On Mon, 12 Mar 2007, Fergie wrote:
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> > >
> > > Via The Sunday Times Online (props, Bruce Schneier).
> > >
> > > [snip]
> > >
> > > Scotland Yard has uncovered evidence that Al-Qaeda has been 
> > plotting 
> > > to bring down the internet in Britain, causing chaos to 
> > business and 
> > > the London Stock Exchange.
> > >
> > > In a series of raids, detectives have recovered computer files 
> > > revealing that terrorist suspects had targeted a high-security 
> > > internet "hub" in London.
> > >
> > > The facility, in Docklands, houses the channel through which almost 
> > > every bit of information on the internet passes in or out 
> > of Britain.
> > > The suspects, who were arrested, had targeted the headquarters of 
> > > Telehouse Europe, which houses Europe's biggest "web hotel", 
> > > containing dozens of "servers", the boxes which contain the 
> > > information that makes up the web.
> > >
> > > [snip]
> > >
> > > More:
> > > http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/crime/article1496831.ece
> > >
> > > - From the description, it sound like an exchange point was being 
> > > targeted:
> > Dude, most of these are probably more physically secure than 
> > anything else anyway. :P
> >
> >      Gadi.
> >
> > --
> > "beepbeep it, i leave work, stop reading sec lists and im 
> > still hearing gadi"
> > - HD Moore to Gadi Evron on IM, on Gadi's interview on npr, 
> > March 2007.
> >
> >
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