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Re: The Backhoe: A Real Cyberthreat?
From: Joe Maimon <jmaimon () ttec com>
Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2006 12:01:32 -0500
Dennis Dayman wrote:
"In 2004, Department of Homeland Security officials became fearful that terrorists might start using accidental dig-ups as a road map for deliberate attacks, and convinced the FCC to begin locking up previously public data on outages. In a commission filing, DHS argued successfully that revealing the details..." --MORE-- http://wired.com/news/technology/0,70040-0.html?tw=wn_tophead_1 -Dennis
This is really stupid. Assuming the terrorist actually have the dozens of backhoes needed to completely erase meaningfull internet connectivity in north america, they would probably prefer to use them to smash cars and kill people on the interstate highways or something.
Terrorist inflict terror by killing people, not by forcing internet explorer to display "page cannot be displayed".
Let us not assume that murderous terrorist are as dumb as people in DHS.
Current thread:
- The Backhoe: A Real Cyberthreat? Dennis Dayman (Jan 19)
- Re: The Backhoe: A Real Cyberthreat? Joseph S D Yao (Jan 19)
- Stupidity: A Real Cyberthreat. Jerry Pasker (Jan 19)
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- Re: Stupidity: A Real Cyberthreat. A Satisfied Mind (Jan 19)
- Re: Stupidity: A Real Cyberthreat. Mark Smith (Jan 19)
- Re: Stupidity: A Real Cyberthreat. A Satisfied Mind (Jan 19)
- Re: Stupidity: A Real Cyberthreat. Mark Smith (Jan 19)
- Re: Stupidity: A Real Cyberthreat. Alexander Harrowell (Jan 19)
- Re: The Backhoe: A Real Cyberthreat? Joseph S D Yao (Jan 19)
- Re: The Backhoe: A Real Cyberthreat? Robert Boyle (Jan 19)
- Re: The Backhoe: A Real Cyberthreat? Randy Whitney (Jan 19)
- Re: The Backhoe: A Real Cyberthreat? Michael . Dillon (Jan 20)
- Re: The Backhoe: A Real Cyberthreat? sgorman1 (Jan 20)
- Re: The Backhoe: A Real Cyberthreat? Micheal Patterson (Jan 19)
- Re: The Backhoe: A Real Cyberthreat? Jerry Pasker (Jan 19)
- Re: The Backhoe: A Real Cyberthreat? Jim Popovitch (Jan 19)
- Re: The Backhoe: A Real Cyberthreat? Robert E . Seastrom (Jan 19)