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RE: Vulnerbilities of Interconnection
From: "Al Rowland" <alan_r1 () corp earthlink net>
Date: Fri, 6 Sep 2002 13:42:31 -0700
Okay, If we're going to go off the deep end here, how about the effect of a small yield air burst over $importantplace? Not designed to maximize casualties/damage but rather EMP? A large number of senior military officials got that 'deer-in-the-headlights' look a few decades back when a deserter supplied "Soviet state of the art" fighter turned out to have tube based electronics. :) It's not much of a stretch from crashing civilian airliners into high rises to "firing for effect" with nuclear weapons. Look at what's going on with Iraq right now. I know, but you're saying that's why the Internet was invented, to provide diverse communications even in a nuclear war. The Internet and its electronics and equipment was a much different animal when that flag was first run up the pole. I wonder if anyone has checked to see if anyone would salute today. Oh, wait, that's what this whole discussion is about, isn't it. ;) Best regards, _________________________ Alan Rowland -----Original Message----- From: owner-nanog () merit edu [mailto:owner-nanog () merit edu] On Behalf Of Tim Thorne Sent: Friday, September 06, 2002 12:58 PM To: nanog () merit edu Subject: Re: Vulnerbilities of Interconnection alex () yuriev com wrote:
Lets bring this discussion to a some common ground - What kind of implact on the global internet would we see should we observe nearly simultaneous detonation of 500 kilogramms of high explosives at N of the major known interconnect facilities?
OK, what if 60 Hudson, 25 Broadway, LinX and AmsIX were all put out of commission? What about the major sites terminating undersea cables in an effort to isolate the US? Or major satellite uplink points? Or all of them? -- Tim
Current thread:
- Re: Vulnerbilities of Interconnection, (continued)
- Re: Vulnerbilities of Interconnection Pawlukiewicz Jane (Sep 06)
- Re: Vulnerbilities of Interconnection Christopher L. Morrow (Sep 06)
- Re: Vulnerbilities of Interconnection alex (Sep 06)
- Re: Vulnerbilities of Interconnection batz (Sep 06)
- Re: Vulnerbilities of Interconnection Pawlukiewicz Jane (Sep 06)
- Re: Vulnerbilities of Interconnection William Waites (Sep 06)
- Re: Vulnerbilities of Interconnection Jared Mauch (Sep 06)
- RE: Vulnerbilities of Interconnection Daniel Golding (Sep 06)
- Re: Vulnerbilities of Interconnection Dave Israel (Sep 06)
- Re: Vulnerbilities of Interconnection Tim Thorne (Sep 06)
- RE: Vulnerbilities of Interconnection Al Rowland (Sep 06)
- RE: Vulnerbilities of Interconnection Jeff Shultz (Sep 06)
- RE: Vulnerbilities of Interconnection Brad Knowles (Sep 06)
- RE: Vulnerbilities of Interconnection Jeff Shultz (Sep 06)
- Re: Vulnerbilities of Interconnection Valdis . Kletnieks (Sep 06)
- Re: Vulnerbilities of Interconnection Stephen J. Wilcox (Sep 06)
- Re: Vulnerbilities of Interconnection John M. Brown (Sep 06)
- Re: Vulnerbilities of Interconnection Kurt Erik Lindqvist (Sep 11)
- Re: Vulnerbilities of Interconnection John M. Brown (Sep 12)
- Re: Vulnerbilities of Interconnection Sean Donelan (Sep 12)
- Re: Vulnerbilities of Interconnection Stephen J. Wilcox (Sep 13)