Barry Greene (bgreene) wrote: > After the Baltimore Tunnel Fire, the NE US Power Outage, and 9/11's > Collateral Damage on the Verizon exchange, SPs, IXPs, and others have > been thinking through physical redundancy layers. This is interesting, > but the backhoe and maintenance injected trouble (MIT) is still the > Internet's biggest threat. --------------------------- ...or announce routes w/ very short AS paths :-)
regards, /virendra > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Gadi Evron >> Sent: Monday, March 12, 2007 5:28 PM >> To: Fergie >> Cc: [email protected] >> Subject: Re: [funsec] Al-Qaeda Plot to Bring Down UK Internet? >> >> On Mon, 12 Mar 2007, Fergie wrote: >>> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >>> Hash: SHA1 >>> >>> Via The Sunday Times Online (props, Bruce Schneier). >>> >>> [snip] >>> >>> Scotland Yard has uncovered evidence that Al-Qaeda has been >> plotting >>> to bring down the internet in Britain, causing chaos to >> business and >>> the London Stock Exchange. >>> >>> In a series of raids, detectives have recovered computer files >>> revealing that terrorist suspects had targeted a high-security >>> internet "hub" in London. >>> >>> The facility, in Docklands, houses the channel through which almost >>> every bit of information on the internet passes in or out >> of Britain. >>> The suspects, who were arrested, had targeted the headquarters of >>> Telehouse Europe, which houses Europe's biggest "web hotel", >>> containing dozens of "servers", the boxes which contain the >>> information that makes up the web. >>> >>> [snip] >>> >>> More: >>> http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/crime/article1496831.ece >>> >>> - From the description, it sound like an exchange point was being >>> targeted: >> Dude, most of these are probably more physically secure than >> anything else anyway. :P >> >> Gadi. >> >> -- >> "beepbeep it, i leave work, stop reading sec lists and im >> still hearing gadi" >> - HD Moore to Gadi Evron on IM, on Gadi's interview on npr, >> March 2007. >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. >> https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec >> Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list. >> > > _______________________________________________ > Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. > https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec > Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list. > _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
