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RE: [fd] Al Qaida claims responsibility for blackout
From: "Drew Copley" <dcopley () eeye com>
Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2003 13:58:53 -0700
-----Original Message----- From: full-disclosure-admin () lists netsys com [mailto:full-disclosure-admin () lists netsys com] On Behalf Of Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu Sent: Tuesday, August 19, 2003 7:11 PM To: danjr Cc: full-disclosure () lists netsys com Subject: Re: [fd] [Full-disclosure] Al Qaida claims responsibility for blackout On Tue, 19 Aug 2003 15:48:22 EDT, danjr <danjr () voyager net> said:Perhaps the funniest part .. they can't say how they did it because they might need to do it again in the future.Admit it. You read it, you thought it *could* be possible. And it could be possible again. If they can make you think about it and worry about it, they've scored points.
What is to worry? What if these morons spent all of this time plotting to do this? We go without power for a few hours, maybe a few days in some places. This is a lot better then if they ever figured out how to blow up gas mains under sports stadiums or realized that keeping their best men alive is a lot more dangerous then killing them with suicide bombings that often only take two or three other people. One person being killed in a terrorist act... This is worse than if the entire US was blacked out. If anybody wanted to worry about anything regarding these things, they should worry about the strike back from these kinds of actions. Regardless, unless this really was hacker oriented, or somehow related to computer security... It really is off topic. I only continued to post on this thread because Al Qaeda is known to have a lot of people in information technology (despite the whole "living in caves" thing). They are surely more intelligent, overall then your average far right Neo-Nazi militia. Except for some extreme left groups, there is not a more wired group than these people. Still, the probability may be like 1 in 1,000,000,000,000. Who knows. Maybe it isn't.
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- Re:[NOW OT] [fd] Al Qaida claims responsibility for blackout Ricky Blaikie (Aug 20)
- RE: [fd] Al Qaida claims responsibility for blackout Drew Copley (Aug 20)
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