NYT: Phone Network Is Vulnerable, Report Finds (fwd)

Tue Aug 6 23:55:24 UTC 2002

At 06:53 PM 8/6/2002 -0400, David Lesher wrote:

>Unnamed Administration sources reported that Martin Hannigan said:
> >
> >
> >
> > If you get the report, I'd be interested, but they'd have to encase the 
> entire
> > country, poles, manholes, generators, central offices, etc into concrete
> > and steel to make it secure. With enough knowledge, it's easy, and the
> > terrorists aren't all stupid. Mostly.
>
>All Ridge has to do is classify every cable map, LERG, CLLI list,
>and telco office guide in the country. Paint all the telco trucks
>black, to go with the helicopters. And/or, federalize the whole
>beast, like the railroads during WWI.
>
>Remember when the FBI Wiretap Act/GAK folks wanted most/all telco
>employees to get clearances? This should make that look trivial.
>Is "system admin" anyone with root access? We better serial-number
>all Linux downloads.

CALEA. We're getting close. Actually, I'm waiting for the next 'call for
papers' as I'd like to present something on this at NANOG, packetcable
side, voip, as it is going to affect network operations in a large way.

Regards,

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Martin Hannigan                    hannigan at fugawi.net