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RE: BT strike could affect internet and phone connections
From: "George Bonser" <gbonser () seven com>
Date: Thu, 27 May 2010 21:58:55 -0700
-----Original Message----- From: andrew.wallace [mailto:andrew.wallace () rocketmail com] Sent: Thursday, May 27, 2010 5:58 PM To: joelja () bogus com Cc: nanog () nanog org Subject: Re: BT strike could affect internet and phone connections On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 1:17 AM, joel jaeggli <joelja () bogus com> wrote:On 2010-05-27 10:42, andrew.wallace wrote:Look at it from an attackers point of view. If you're thinking about carrying out an electronic jihad of some kind when is the best time? A normal working day or during an engineers strike that only happens once every 23 years?Not to put to fine a point on it, a normal working day is the besttime tostrike if you want to maximize the value of your attack.The point I'm getting at is this strike of this nature is a threat to national security and the internet is supposed to be classed as critical infrastructure, so shouldn't it be against the law for them to strike?
Sounds to me like the best defense the UK could implement would be fostering competition with BT. BT goes on strike, customers move elsewhere, life goes on.
Current thread:
- BT strike could affect internet and phone connections andrew.wallace (May 27)
- Re: BT strike could affect internet and phone connections Tim Franklin (May 27)
- Re: BT strike could affect internet and phone connections Larry Sheldon (May 27)
- Re: BT strike could affect internet and phone connections Peter Hicks (May 27)
- Re: BT strike could affect internet and phone connections andrew.wallace (May 27)
- Re: BT strike could affect internet and phone connections Valdis . Kletnieks (May 27)
- Re: BT strike could affect internet and phone connections andrew.wallace (May 27)
- Re: BT strike could affect internet and phone connections Valdis . Kletnieks (May 27)
- Re: BT strike could affect internet and phone connections andrew.wallace (May 27)
- RE: BT strike could affect internet and phone connections George Bonser (May 27)
- Re: BT strike could affect internet and phone connections joel jaeggli (May 28)
- Re: BT strike could affect internet and phone connections Steven Bellovin (May 28)
- Re: BT strike could affect internet and phone connections Sam Hayes Merritt, III (May 28)
- Re: BT strike could affect internet and phone connections Steven Bellovin (May 28)
- Re: BT strike could affect internet and phone connections Tim Franklin (May 27)
- Re: BT strike could affect internet and phone connections joel jaeggli (May 27)
- Re: BT strike could affect internet and phone connections Bryan Fields (May 27)