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A Cyber-Attack On an American City
Bruce Perens writes "Just after midnight on Thursday, April 9, unidentified attackers climbed down four manholes in the Northern California city of Morgan Hill and cut eight fiber cables in what appears to have been an organized attack on the electronic infrastructure of an American city. Its implications, though startling, have gone almost un-reported.
So I decided to change that."
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Jesus. Here come four thousand posts about how awesome hams are, and how Internet over power cables sucks, etc.
My Dad was a ham. Yes, hams are awesome. In their nutty little useful-once-in-a-lifetime, semi-Luddite way.
We love you, hams. We're glad you're out there. But please, seriously, shut the fuck up. On the Internet. Feel free to blather on your radios.
-Peter
"Morris code" implies Morse Dancing. Which added a little hilarity to my afternoon.
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I doubt many readers here could physically fit into a manhole, much less survive a climb down any sort of non-motorized ladder.
They might just be really, really, incompetent terrorists? I don't think we have a word mildinconvenienceists.
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My money is on unionized workers
Well then, ionize the workforce in future.
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Without attacks there is little need to build robust systems.
Except natural disasters, of course, but you can turn them off in the options menu.
"Trolls they were, but filled with the evil will of their master: a fell race..." -- J.R.R. Tolkien on Olog-hai
I think the proper word we are all hunting for is "activist"
For large sets, this will be our guide even unto death, for the LORD will work for each type of data it is applied to...
And on a related note, this is why I always insert multiple </b>'s into my text.
Hey hey hey! Hold it right there. I think there is LITTLE that strikes fear into the hearts of most nerds like being cut off from the net. So before you go waving your burning flags and crying alla akbar, maybe you should consider whistling like a 14.4k baud, and putting on that "I make Token Ring Networks" t-shirt.
On slashdot, THAT my friend, is true terror.
If you want to be a real tard, maybe throw in some rhetoric about head to head gaming via Com1!
Moved to http://soylentnews.org/. You are invited to join us too!
The day my employer strips me of my loosely bound electrons is the day I give notice.
Unless of course I'm on the "to be negatively charged" list, in which case:
Sucks to be you, alkali employees!!!
"Trolls they were, but filled with the evil will of their master: a fell race..." -- J.R.R. Tolkien on Olog-hai
I think I found a single point of failure in your message, just after the word "Reducing". We need redundant HTML bold end tags!
That said, central communication infrastructure will NEVER have the redundancies necessary to provide 100 percent proof against terror-by-backhoe. To expect such is folly.
Good point. Someone ought to design a nationwide network that can route around failures... the extreme case being a nuclear war. Ye gads, why doesn't the government fund such an idea?!?
Don't tell me to get a life. I'm a gamer; I have LOTS of lives!
To the contrary, it perfectly illustrates the idiocy of the entire concept.
Agreed. With multiple closure tags, the HTML terrorists could have knocked out one of them, and it still would have closed properly.
Oh I'm sorry, they're not terrorists, they're disgruntled web developers.
"Trolls they were, but filled with the evil will of their master: a fell race..." -- J.R.R. Tolkien on Olog-hai
Yeah, but that's because you're not living in a city with their fibres cut.
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I was thinking of Vinge when I wrote the article.
Bruce Perens.