Risk of Internet collapse grows
David Diaz
davediaz at smoton.net
Wed Nov 27 14:22:24 UTC 2002
Exactly my thought. I didnt mention it for fear of rambling. But
there are areas of limited redundancy, and those are larger targets.
I used to receive "interesting" messages from rebels in S. America
because at the time we were working with some of the larger companies
down there by hosting their sites, and running IP connections. An
attack at key sites like landing centers etc could cut off a lot of
S. America.
It was also a selling point pushed by people like PanAmSat that would
claim it was hard to knock out a bird, and they were going direct to
each customer.
It does seem that most hostile groups out there are more interested
in something more gory then saying "ha we have denied the infidels
their spam this week..."
At 13:28 +0000 11/27/02, variable at ednet.co.uk wrote:
>On Wed, 27 Nov 2002, David Diaz wrote:
>
>> I think this is old news. There was a cover story back in 1996 time
>> frame on Mae_east. We have to ask how likely is this with many of
>> the top backbones doing private peering over local loops, how much
>> damage would occur if an exchange point where hit?
>
>It depends which exchange point is hit. There are a couple of buildings
>in London which if hit would have a disasterous affect on UK and European
>peering.
>
>What about fibre landing stations? Are these diverse enough? Again, most
>of the transatlantic fibre (for the UK) appears to come in near Lands End.
>
>Rich
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