Vulnerbilities of Interconnection

Fri Sep 6 20:42:31 UTC 2002

Okay,

If we're going to go off the deep end here, how about the effect of a
small yield air burst over $importantplace? Not designed to maximize
casualties/damage but rather EMP? A large number of senior military
officials got that 'deer-in-the-headlights' look a few decades back when
a deserter supplied "Soviet state of the art" fighter turned out to have
tube based electronics. :)

It's not much of a stretch from crashing civilian airliners into high
rises to "firing for effect" with nuclear weapons. Look at what's going
on with Iraq right now.

I know, but you're saying that's why the Internet was invented, to
provide diverse communications even in a nuclear war. The Internet and
its electronics and equipment was a much different animal when that flag
was first run up the pole. I wonder if anyone has checked to see if
anyone would salute today. 

Oh, wait, that's what this whole discussion is about, isn't it. ;)

Best regards,
_________________________
Alan Rowland

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-nanog at merit.edu [mailto:owner-nanog at merit.edu] On Behalf Of
Tim Thorne
Sent: Friday, September 06, 2002 12:58 PM
To: nanog at merit.edu
Subject: Re: Vulnerbilities of Interconnection

alex at yuriev.com wrote:

>Lets bring this discussion to a some common ground -
>
>What kind of implact on the global internet would we see should we 
>observe nearly simultaneous detonation of 500 kilogramms of high 
>explosives at N of the major known interconnect facilities?

OK, what if 60 Hudson, 25 Broadway, LinX and AmsIX were all put out of
commission?

What about the major sites terminating undersea cables in an effort to
isolate the US?

Or major satellite uplink points?

Or all of them?

--
Tim