Re: IPv6, C&C (not botnets, coffe and cats)

["Paul Ferguson" <fergdawg () netzero net>]

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- -- "Brian Loe" <knobdy () gmail com> wrote:

> On 6/29/07, B.K. DeLong <bkdelong () pobox com> wrote:
>
> >  What's next? Turning the electric grid into a WMD? ;)
>
> What, you haven't seen Live Free or Die Hard yet?!

As a matter of fact, I just went and saw it this afternoon. :-)

And it was highly entertaining.

What Brian is referring to is a coordinated cyber attack on the
U.S. Infrastructure called a "fire sale" -- as in "Everything must
go.

And I see that someone has already posted a Wikipedia entry for
this term and referenced the movie:

[snip]

"The term 'fire sale' is used in the 2007 movie Live Free or Die
Hard to describe a hypothetical attack by computer hackers on vital
networks of the United States government, infrastructure, and
economy. The process has three steps: eliminating transportation,
erasing financial records, and removing all public utilities. This
theoretical process drives the plot of the movie to bring the United
States of America to its knees and cause total chaos."

[snip]

Link:
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fire_sale>

Pretty far-fetched, at least insofar as the movie plot, but as
more and more critical infrstructure is reachable via Internet
connectivity...

- - ferg


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"Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson
 Engineering Architecture for the Internet
 fergdawg(at)netzero.net
 ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/


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