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Preparing for the Worst in IT
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."
Link in article broken, nice job editors!
Well, it's interesting that you should mention that.
As it so happens, my Congressional office is, as we speak, drafting a bill (the Boogeyman Abatement Through Simulated Hypertrophy of Internet Threats Act of 2007) -- whose ingenious mechanism will amplify the apparent existence of threats in order to increase funding to preempt those threats' materialization.
Can anyone doubt the threat boogeymen might pose to our nation? To our loved ones' wellbeing? To our very lives? I certainly cannot.
N.B. As an unfortunate side effect, the Boogeyman Abatement Act will enrich my campaign donors beyond their wildest dreams, but I assure you I would do anything to avoid this were such a thing possible.
Sincerely,
Congressman Rich "Jolly Pockets" Whitebeard
Thank you for your support.
Only mass servility can keep America safe from boogeymen.
We've already survived the worst. What else could be thrown at us?
Thank you my friend. I find what you say very useful. Allah smiles on you this day my friend!
Does this sig remind you of Agatha Christie?
Just bomb second lifes datacenter
Why is terrorism "the worst" now?
Beats the hell out of me. I read the headline and assumed that a sysadmin had wandered into the office on a bright, fresh, monday morning and discovered that their datacentre had been mysteriously populated with Vista and SCO unix.