----- Forwarded message from coderman <[email protected]> ----- Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2013 19:00:56 -0700 From: coderman <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [tor-talk] Network diversity [was: Should I warn against Tor?] Reply-To: [email protected]
On Mon, Jul 8, 2013 at 11:24 AM, grarpamp <[email protected]> wrote: > ... > And about a decade ago there was a researcher who compiled > fiber right-of-way maps from public sources and wrote a paper > discussing vulnerability of Internet structure to physical attack. > The details were omitted due to 'security' ... you're likely thinking of Sean Gorman's dissertation: "Networks, complexity, and security: the role of public policy in critical infrastructure protection" http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1023236 > yet crowdrecreating/finding > that work/paper would yield similar IX locations for discussion. path diversity at the physical layer would be useful to consider, and you could do this without the fine grained location and capacity details that makes the above critical infrastructure vulnerabilities less a concern. detailed and specific plats/maps akin to what Sean aggregated and analyzed get you unwelcome scrutiny ;) > Big fiber junctions are often not in giant buildings with telecom > logos on them. c.f. cable landing sites in US: http://207.198.103.187:8081/wci.jpg see also: http://cryptome.org/eyeball/cable/cable-eyeball.htm http://cryptome.org/eyeball/cablew/cablew-eyeball.htm http://cryptome.org/nsa-seatap.htm http://cryptome.org/telecomm-weak.htm http://cryptome.org/nsa-fibertap.htm http://cryptome.org/nsa-lynn.htm and telegeography's submarine cable map: http://www.submarinecablemap.com/ _______________________________________________ tor-talk mailing list [email protected] https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org";>leitl</a> http://leitl.org ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://ativel.com http://postbiota.org AC894EC5: 38A5 5F46 A4FF 59B8 336B 47EE F46E 3489 AC89 4EC5 -- Too many emails? Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by emailing moderator at [email protected] or changing your settings at https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech
