What Worked - What Didn't

Mon Sep 17 19:56:24 UTC 2001

On Mon, 17 Sep 2001, Randy Bush wrote:

> 
> > The big winners were cable TV, email, packet networks and IM applications.
> > The big losers with cell phones, circuit switching, PSTN, non-akamized
> > news sites.
> 
> no one went after the comms infrastructure.  when they do, i suspect that
> we will find the internet is extremely vulnerable.  how many folk even
> have md5 auth turned on their bgp peering sessions?  what nievete!
> 
> randy

All US long-distance telephony infrastructure can be effectively disabled
by a couple dozen or so backhoes digging in the right places.  Even
competing carriers often share cables.

--vadim