--------------------------------------------------------------------<e|- <FONT COLOR="#000099">Go to Maingate.com to improve the quality of military life. </FONT><A HREF="http://click.egroups.com/1/7635/1/_/163550/_/964792986/"><B>Click Here!</B></A> --------------------------------------------------------------------|e>- ===========RUMOR MILL NEWS AGENCY=========== >From Ru Mills, Editor in Chief Is the Gov't Going to Shutdown the Internet? I just read an article by a man who believes Carnivore will be used to shut down the Internet -- I guess the following article is written so that when the government decides to shut the Internet down quickly, they can blame it on terrorists. This must be the back up plan just in case Carnivore doesn't do the job fast enough. The Internet is waking people up too quickly. The ruling elite can't allow this. They are afraid we might revolt and kill them-- (The article by the man who thinks Carnivore can shut down the Internet will be sent next.)### ----- Original Message ----- From: v2o [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, July 26, 2000 8:47 PM Subject: Web's Achilles' Heel Could be Targeted By Attacks R: HOW CONVIENIENT! T. Web's Achilles' Heel Could be Targeted By Attacks http://www.discovery.com/news/briefs/20000726/te_webattack.html By David Bradley, Discovery.com News July 25, 2000 - Cyberterrorists could exploit a feature of the Internet that normally keeps it up and running to bring the entire system to a grinding halt, according to a report in this week's Nature. According to Albert-L�szl� Barab�si of Notre Dame University in Indiana, the Internet and the World-Wide Web are highly susceptible to planned, intelligent attacks. He has analyzed maps of the connections between sections of the Internet, and found that even if several small sections or links stop working, most people wouldn't notice the effect because the rest of the system would re-route that information. "The current Internet structure is not a result of a central design, but rather emerged as a result of numerous, independent steps of linking computers to it without a central authority watching over," said Barab�si. Barab�si's analysis reveals the Internet and the Web to be "scale-free structures" where most of the connections, or "nodes," are linked only to one or two others. However, there are a few critical nodes with a much larger number of links. According to Yuhai Tu of IBM in New York, "The scale-free structure is the Internet's Achilles' heel under hostile attack. The most effective way of destroying a network is to attack its most connected nodes." Tu added that the average performance of the Internet falls by a factor of two if just one in a hundred of the most connected nodes are destroyed; and with only 4 percent of them destroyed, the Internet breaks down into small disconnected areas. Cyber-terrorists armed with a map of the Internet could deliberately focus their attack on these critical nodes. If they could crash just a few there would be no alternate links, so no emergency routes for the data to take. The result would be net breakdown. Knowing about the net's Achilles' heel means network experts could come up with a design for rerouting or reconnecting systems where a handful of nodes might be attacked, in order to produce a robust Internet secure from cyberattack. ============The Uncensored National Rumor=========== THE ONLY RUMOR YOU CAN TRUST!!! http://www.rumormillnews.com P.O. Box 1784 Aptos, CA 95001 Tel: 831.462.3949 Fax: 831.462.2545 Want to Join or Leave the RMNews Mailing List? [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] RMNews, The Uncensored National Rumor http://www.rumormillnews.com THE ONLY RUMOR YOU CAN TRUST RUMOR MILL NEWS AGENCY P.O. BOX 1784 APTOS, CA 95001 TELFAX 831 462 3949 WHY WAS PRINCESS DIANA MURDERED? http://www.dianaqueenofheaven.com
