Hi Alex, alex@yuriev.com wrote:
Is there a general consensus that cyber/internal attacks are more effective/dangerous than physical attacks. Anecdotally it seems the largest Internet downages have been from physical cuts or failures.
It depends on what you consider and internet outage. Or how you define that. IMHO.
Lets bring this discussion to a some common ground -
What kind of implact on the global internet would we see should we observe nearly simultaneous detonation of 500 kilogramms of high explosives at N of the major known interconnect facilities?
N? Well, if you define N as the number of interconnect facilities, such as all the Equinix sites (and I'm not banging on Equinix, it's just where we started all this) then I think globally, it wouldn't make that much difference. People in Tokyo would still be able to reach the globe and both coasts of the US. Maybe some sites in the interior of the US would be difficult to reach. I'd have to run a model to be sure, but every one of the major seven have rerouting methodologies that would recover from the loss. And I don't think they exclusively peer at Equinix. The more I think about it, the more sure I am that they don't. However I could be wrong. Wouldn't be the first time. Jane
Alex