> You'll pardon me if I see a slight difference of magnitude between > sending a plane full of a hundred or so innocent people careening > into an office building of many thousands at 500 miles per hour as > slightly more important than cooking a transformer.
And when downing the transformer - or, more likely, transformer*s* - takes out power to a couple of middling-large cities for several weeks in the dead of winter? Say, several million people, of which a few percent, at least, are marginal enough to be killed outright by it, and a substantially larger fraction likely to die of assorted complications, from domestic friction to injuries suffered trying to deal. Consider what the ice storm a decade or so ago did to northeastern North America, and that didn't have malicious intelligence guiding it, or taking out the power feeds that did survive. You're right. There is a substantial difference of magnitude. It goes the other way, though. /~\ The ASCII Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTML [email protected] / \ Email! 7D C8 61 52 5D E7 2D 39 4E F1 31 3E E8 B3 27 4B _______________________________________________ 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.
