Internet vulnerabilities

Thu Jul 4 22:58:14 UTC 2002

The 13 year olds generally do it for the glory of being elite, not for
greater political agendas.

And, while I think that if terrorists wanted to, they could... I think
terrorists are more interested in collateral damage.
--Phil

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-nanog at merit.edu [mailto:owner-nanog at merit.edu] On Behalf Of
Jason Lewis
Sent: Thursday, July 04, 2002 6:42 PM
To: nanog at merit.edu
Subject: RE: Internet vulnerabilities

>
> I'm actually more worried about script/packet kiddies.
>
> 13 year olds with some scripting knowledge rarely know the financial 
> cost of their "fun".
>

Does the possibility of these 13 year olds being recruited exist?  I
think so.

I think most people are grouping terrorist into the "strap a bomb to
your body and commit suicide" stereotype.  Is there a possibility that
intelligent terrorists exist?  Or even people that have the knowledge
and sympathize with them?  OBL used a satellite phone, they found
laptops in Afghanistan, there is evidence they are using the web to
transmit information to each other.  I think someone out there has a
clue about computers.

Crippling the entire net may be impossible, but it sure sounds like a
well planned out series of attacks could do some serious damage.

jas