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Growing Commercialization Threatens Net Security

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the fewer-windows-to-jimmy dept.

dr3vil writes "The BBC is reporting that the concentration of the net's backbone in fewer hands has made it more vulnerable to attack. The report compares an attack to travel problems when traffic is disrupted at O'Hare. Hopefully someone in a position to act will pay attention."

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  1. We can only hope by Rick+the+Red · · Score: 5, Funny
    The report compares an attack to travel problems when traffic is disrupted at O'Hare. Hopefully someone in a position to act will pay attention.
    Damn straight! Chicago needs at least two more airports, one south and the other southwest of the city.

    Oh, you were using O'Hare as an example? Nevermind.

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    1. Re:We can only hope by EmbeddedJanitor · · Score: 2, Funny

      Are they going to search your packets for knives and knitting needles before you log on?

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    2. Re:We can only hope by RealAlaskan · · Score: 3, Funny
      ... and then bawk at how much it costs to keep a second site available.

      ``Bawk'' is the noise a chicken makes. Very appropriate here. ``To balk at'' means to struggle against, or complain about, or so. That would have been the more usual thing to see in such a sentence.

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  2. Re:Whoa, that's big news! by Rick+the+Red · · Score: 4, Funny

    Now, now, give the Editors a break. If that particular filter worked there'd be no need for "-1 Redundant."

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  3. Re:From the article: by flewp · · Score: 3, Funny

    Well in this post Sept 11th world, if we don't reference Sept 11th, the terrorists have already won!

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  4. Re:A Simple Internet Model by Em+Emalb · · Score: 5, Funny

    In what was considered a shocking move today, members of the Mouse Movement known as You moved my Cheese, you Rat Bastard, or YMMC,YRB for short, have declared war on the ever popular internet.

    Speaking from his private "nest" in the foothills of Santa Barbara, General Carlissimo P Rodentia had this to say:

    "You have bombarded my people for years with your unwanted peecees and aol ceedees. No longer. Your precious internet cannot stand the assault of 100 billion of my brother's and sister's teeth. Consider yourselves warned."

    A truly ominous sign of the times.

    Signing off, this is Reginald Rattus, reporting.

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  5. Less people who handle the backbone? by Quaoar · · Score: 0, Funny

    Chiropracters are gonna be bummed.

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  6. Re:Why not get US in on this? by rnturn · · Score: 5, Funny
    ``...that governments around the world, particularly in democratic nations (so-called, more accurately 'media-cracies')''

    Shouldn't that be: mediocracies

    :-)

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  7. Eh, Sonny? by S.+Phydeaux · · Score: 2, Funny

    So the internet is more vulnerable now than In The Olden Days, when the backbone was carried entirely by MCI? It must be that new math.