Internet vulnerabilities

Thu Jul 4 18:23:37 UTC 2002

Except what if in my scenario, while flooding, it executed dd
if=/dev/zero of=(hd) on all of the system drives.

If someone wanted to do it, it could be done.
--Phil

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-nanog at merit.edu [mailto:owner-nanog at merit.edu] On Behalf Of
David Ulevitch
Sent: Thursday, July 04, 2002 2:23 PM
To: nanog at merit.edu
Subject: Re: Internet vulnerabilities

<quote who="Jason Lewis">
> What if someone actually had the skills to disrupt BGP on a widescale?

I think the media talk about "taking down the Internet" are kind of
bogus.

Nobody has ever died because they couldn't check their email.

If the net went down for an hour, a day, or even a week I think that my
mom and the rest of the non "glued-to-their-terminal" world would
somehow struggle through and sustain a normal daily routine.

-davidu [who probably would not survive a week long net outage ;) ]

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