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Re: Vulnerbilities of Interconnection
From: batz <batsy () vapour net>
Date: Fri, 6 Sep 2002 17:15:52 -0400 (EDT)
On Fri, 6 Sep 2002, Mike Tancsa wrote: :How about network operators ? Would you be any more or less pissed and :react differently at the motives as to why someone attacked your network :? To a network technician, it doesn't matter whether it's terrorists or cow tipping teenagers causing outages, as the depth of analysis required to fix the problem doesn't involve speculating about the identities and motives of the perpetrators. Even as a network operator, you have to respond to incidents based on what you can do about them, which with a few exceptions, is seperate from who caused the incident, or why they did it. The "Why's" of network outages have more to do with "why didn't it fail over and how can be make sure it does next time?", than "are cow tipping terrorists rampaging through my network?". There is a human tendency to react to situations using information from the very edge of our knowledge and understanding, ("It must be something to do with superstrings! Just let me do some reasearch and I'll get back to you about the *real* cause of these network problems..") and this is something we have to take into account when working on problems so we don't get sidetracked from solving the problem at hand. Cheers, -- batz
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