The Backhoe: A Real Cyberthreat?

Robert Boyle robert at tellurian.com
Thu Jan 19 17:51:00 UTC 2006


At 12:01 PM 1/19/2006, you wrote:
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.

Agreed. However, if you disappear now, we'll know why! :P

-Robert


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