I'm gonna go ahead and guess that severing the main backbone lines between countries would have a significant effect, as well. Physical damage to the internet would probably be more effective and easier than software-damage (taking down a dns server).
On 6/20/06, Stewart Stremler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
begin quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED] as of Mon, Jun 19, 2006 at 11:24:04PM -0700: > Bruce S. (the security guy) claims he knows half dozen ways > to take down the Internet. I'm wondering if he's full of crap. Schneier? > The only one I can think of is to target the root DNS servers. > > I'm not sure Internet has FIVE more weak spots than *that*. The current structure of the Internet doesn't have a lot of edges; judicious elimination of a few backbone links would have a significant effect. > thoughts? Yeah. A guy like Schneier has a reputation for sober thought, not rhetorical hype; he's been thinking about this for some time, and he might be erring on the conservative side. Schneier generally knows what he's talking about. He's scary-smart. -- _ |\_ \| -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
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