The Backhoe: A Real Cyberthreat?

Thu Jan 19 17:01:32 UTC 2006

Dennis Dayman wrote:

> "In 2004, Department of Homeland Security officials became fearful that
> terrorists might start using accidental dig-ups as a road map for deliberate
> attacks, and convinced the FCC to begin locking up previously public data on
> outages. In a commission filing, DHS argued successfully that revealing the
> details..."
> 
> --MORE--
> 
> http://wired.com/news/technology/0,70040-0.html?tw=wn_tophead_1
> 
> -Dennis
> 
> 
> 

This is really stupid. Assuming the terrorist actually have the dozens 
of backhoes needed to completely erase meaningfull internet connectivity 
in north america, they would probably prefer to use them to smash cars 
and kill people on the interstate highways or something.

Terrorist inflict terror by killing people, not by forcing internet 
explorer to display "page cannot be displayed".

Let us not assume that murderous terrorist are as dumb as people in DHS.