Vulnerbilities of Interconnection

Thu Sep 5 20:01:02 UTC 2002

> 
> The thing is, the major cuts are not "attacks;" the backhoe operators
> aren't gunning for our fiber (no matter how much it seems like they
> are).  If I wanted to disrupt traffic, intentionally and maliciously,
> I would not derail a train into a fiber path.  Doing so would be very
> difficult, and the legal ramifications (murder, destruction of
> property, etc, etc) are quite clear and severe.  However, if I
> ping-bomb you from a thousand "0wn3d" PCs on cable modems, I never had
> to leave my parents' basement, I'm harder to trace by normal police
> methods, and the question of which laws that can be applied to me is
> less clear. 

This fails to address how this affects someone who has no problem with legal
ramfications - i.e. a terrorist.

Alex