[Fwd: Re: FCC Outage Reports ..(.was Verizon outage in Southern California?)]

Fri Oct 21 20:10:00 UTC 2005

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Just taking a quick poll to see if nanog community would consider this
a worthwhile effort to pursue?

regards,
/virendra

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Subject: Re: FCC Outage Reports ..(.was Verizon outage in Southern
California?)
Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2005 21:26:51 +0300 (EEST)
From: Juuso Lehtinen <jalehtin at cc.hut.fi>
To: nanog at merit.edu
References: <153C7BD7A0BE5E4C82C46650FEA94130050370BF at MKA46.pcc.int>
<435873F1.7050702 at socal.rr.com> <43592842.2050606 at nrg4u.com>

On Fri, 21 Oct 2005, Andre Oppermann wrote:
> Here we see again that the secrecy ("to prevent terrorism") of this
> information costs more than having it in the open as the FCC did in
> the past.  The whole terrorism sham was just a convenient excuse to
> prevent outsiders from assessing the quality of the carriers network.

In the field of security engineering, this is something called security
through obscurity. Terrorists are well funded, and they, no doubt, can get
hold on those 'secret' fiber maps if they have interest in them.

> Do I feel better that neither me nor the terrorist know that my "redundant"
> fiber routes are in the same dig?  Or in the same cable even?  We all know
> how reliable the carriers bonus driven sales droid promises are...

Only ones suffering are us...

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juuso lehtinen

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