The Backhoe: A Real Cyberthreat?

Bevan Slattery bevan at staff.pipenetworks.com
Sun Jan 22 21:27:13 UTC 2006


 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-nanog at merit.edu [mailto:owner-nanog at merit.edu] On Behalf
Of Daniel Golding
> Sent: Friday, January 20, 2006 3:59 PM
> To: sgorman1 at gmu.edu

> If I was a terrorist, I'd rather try to take out points of fiber
concentration, and my tool would not be a backhoe. I won't elaborate,
but I think most folks can > > figure out a few modalities of attack.

You're comments are spot on.  There are far more simpler, destructive,
portable, scalable and inexpensive ways to achieve the same end.  Any
fibre provider knows what they are and hopes they never happen.

An army of backhoes - that's funny.

Cheers

[b]



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