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Preparing for the Worst in IT

Posted by Zonk on from the in-a-post-blah-blah-blah dept.

mplex writes "How vulnerable is the internet to terrorist attack? Is it robust enough to handle an outage on a massive scale? Should the commercial infrastructure that powers the internet be kept secret? These are the sorts of questions raised by Mark Gibbs in his latest column in Network World. 'There is an alternate route available for nearly all services through Las Vegas or Northern California serving all facilities-based carriers in Los Angeles -- all interconnected at numerous L.A. and L.A.-area fiber-optic terminals supporting both metro and long-distance cable.' Given that the internet thrives on open networks, it's hard to imagine keeping them a secret. At best, we must be prepared to deal with the worst."

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  1. Fix the fucking tag by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait



    Thanks

  2. Re:What about a boogeyman attack? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Yeah, I guess we shouldn't care about terrorism any more. I guess it's no big deal. Cause of earthquakes and all. I guess 9/11 was sort of "slow news day" material. "Hey Mohammed, go ahead, we don't care about what you're doing because koreth thinks hurricanes might reach Canada."

  3. Re:What about a boogeyman attack? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait
    In fact, it's a good demonstration of, as you say, how my brain works: I try to think through the subject based on what actually happened. Observable history, one might call it.

    The only reason two of the three 9/11 hijackings succeeded

    Sorry for the pedantism, but don't you mean three of the four?


    If you read the sentence before, you'd know that his brain is superior to ours, because it is based on reality.

    Therefore, the rest of us are imagining that there were four hi-jacked planes.