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Vulnerability of Telco Switching Equipment
call -151 writes: "Interesting New York times article about the Sept 11th attacks' effect
on the Verizon switches in lower Manhattan. Turns out there
was a problem in that much of the network switching was in one
building and it has taken a while to restore service. Sounds like there
is lots of pondering about the vulnerability of the network,
even when it is distributed across many physical locations.
Of course the attacks are making lots of people rethink their
vulnerabilities, but the estimate is for five years' work before there
could be redundant paths for the lines into their switches in
the one building, with no plans to spend the money to do it.
Maybe someone should send them a few hundred thousand 'self-install'
kits like they do with their DSL service ..."
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I'd like to take this opportunity to share an inspiring letter I saw on a mailing list a few days after the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center. It makes an important point: we computer geeks are in the front lines of the war against terrorism -- as much as any law enforcement agency or branch of the military. Combating infection by the Nimda worm is very much like infiltrating and destroying an Al Qaeda cell.
As you all know, Americans are already on alert for any possible bioterror attacks. Unfortunately there is a new, much more worrisome threat out there now.
If you receive an e-mail message from an unfamiliar person, DO NOT OPEN IT!!! It may contain ANTHRAX, which will be blown into your room via your computer's fan.
Experts at the CDC agree that this is probably the most effective and deadly way of spreading biological agents, and all Americans are urged to be cautious.
If you get a message that seems suspicious, IMMEDIATELY TURN OFF YOUR COMPUTER and call 911. The police will need to investigate whether the message contains anthrax or another biological or chemical weapon.
Subject headers that should be treated as suspicious include:
Make money fast
Free XXX hot pics
Virus alert!
or variations of the above. Also, anything from a user called 'listserv' at any domain should be considered dangerous.
Protect yourself! Call 911 if you encounter any of these e-mail messages, or any others that you don't trust!
It amazes me that so many allegedly "educated" people have allowed themselves to be so swiftly deluded by a fraudulent fabrication of such ridiculous proportions. The very idea that not one, but two jumbo jets would crash themselves into a famous New York skyscraper -- in broad daylight with vigilant air-traffic controllers and tight airport security watching every move of every craft in the air -- is laughable. Furthermore, it is a horrendous affront to the world-renowned intellect and common sense of the American people. The fact that anyone could actually believe this is evidence that the Liberals -- after decades of waging war against intellectual integrity and honesty -- have finally ripped the few remaining, tenuous strands of control of our educational system from full-blooded, hard-working, God-fearing Americans.
As such wonderful documentaries as The Siege have so articulately exposed, the Liberal masterminds in Berkeley and their toadies throughout the nation have been silently waging war against the American people and their God-given rights to protect themselves, their worship, their family values, and their hard work. Much of this has been conducted under the guise of preventing "terrorism", a meaningless word engineered by radical left-wingers specifically to bring fear into the heart of honest Americans. Think about it -- can you remember any reference to so-called "terrorism" that occurred before Liberals invaded our government offices in the last decade? Of course you can't, because despite whatever the revisionist histories may tell you, there is no mention of any "terrorism" in classic literature before 1980. Only then did the neo-Marxists invent such absurd figures as Timothy McVeigh and Osama Bin Laden in order to legitimize their anti-freedom agenda, drowning the spirit of the American people in a blatantly-engineered machine of fear and mourning for "victims" of these "terrorist attacks".
In fact, it should be incredibly obvious that the concept of a 110-story building even being built, much less two, is a clear and obvious fraud. No documentation of these "twin towers" existed before a "terrorist attack" occured on the previously-nonexistent pair of skyscrapers on September the 11th. Due to this hoax being perpetrated by the Liberal-controlled media, suddenly people all over the world mourned the loss of thousands of people who had not existed before. Innocent men and women, brainwashed by the left-wing education institutions, gave firsthand accounts of losing relatives they never had until the "attack" happened.
But the most outrageous aspect of this hoax is the "Pentagon" -- a government office fabricated especially for this purpose. Liberal media claims this imaginary building to be "the center of America's defense system", although obviously an organization as proud and God-fearing as the United States Military would never think to station themselves in a building of five sides, so obviously close to the pentagram, mark of Lucifer himself. It is insulting to the nation's intelligence that eight hundred members of the world's proudest institution would be made to meet their Lord by something as graceful, efficient, and secure as our country's fine aviation system.
Don't let the devious tricks of the Liberals allow you, a citizen of the greatest nation this Earth has ever or will ever know, to surrender your freedoms. Any lesser nation would have succumbed to their wills long ago, and indeed the socialist states in Europe already have. It is only the superior resilience, pride, and intellect of America that has allowed it to withstand the constant threat of Liberal control.
you fucking dipshits! two comments like this were posted before! and both got modded down as redundant? how can the first comment be redundant while the 3rd one be informative? FUCKING DISPHIT MODERATORS CAN SUCK MY FUCKING BALLS!
Password: testtest
when I moderate, I first begin with a preparation of peyote.
after about 30 minutes, when I feel the nausea setting in, I whip out the happysock and pass around the bat.
that really takes the edge off, but to get me back to peak performance chase it with a little Wild Turkey.
some times, some whippits are nice, but I have to really have a savage buzz, as it only lasts for a sec. That tunnel vision shit makes it impossible to see the screen sometimes too.
So, just to be clear, it's not crack. It's psychoactives that help.
the game is now to guess that password, as I have changed it.
I will give you a hint: feces and urine
I love your sig
"What is the sound of one belly slapping?"
But nobody will fly a Boeing product into the primary exchange, because we have defeated the Evil h4xx0rZ with the USA act! Now we can stop them from posting their '1337' encrypted messages to all their terrorist buddies!
Just out of curiosity, did the USA Act make it illegal to fly a plane into a skyscraper, or is that still OK?
Fascism starts when the efficiency of the government becomes more important than the rights of the people.
Maybe the problem is that you're implementing your telco services using high cucumbers. Perhaps you should try sober celery, or slightly tipsy turnips.
actually, I just want to be annonymous thanks.
lol
There's a building in Toronto (151 Front Street West) ... Our only hope is to remain "under the radar" of Terrorists.
By, say, publicizing your street address at the most frequented bulletin board on the entire internet?
Dittos to the idiot who just advertised "60 Hudson in NYC" and "Central in Seattle".
But nobody will fly a Boeing product into the primary exchange
How is this offtopic?
Eh, bullshit, ask the Tragically Hip, they know what's going down.
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