On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 11:10:40AM -0700, Joel Jaeggli wrote:
Barry Shein wrote:
Equating port 25 use with domestic terrorism is specious.
Ammonium nitrate requires requires some care in handling regardless of your intentions,see for exmple the oppau or texas city disasters.
And how different is that from the million+ strong zombie botnets? Who owns (not pwns) those zombie'd systems and what were their intentions?
Well let's see. The texas city disaster is/was considered the worst industrial accident in american history. 581 people killed by an explosive yield of about 2 kilotons. The secondary effects includes fires in many of the chemical facilities in Galveston and a swath of destruction that reached up to 40 miles inland...
http://www.local1259iaff.org/disaster.html
So no, I don't think internet attached hosts can casually equated with the destructive potential of a pile of fertilizer at least not in the context described.
One word: SCADA. Yes, in point of fact, I think it *is* reasonable to evaluate potential threats to "just some PCs getting pwned" in terms of physical damage on grander scales. It's not just about spam, or fraudulent credit charges. Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth jra@baylink.com Designer +-Internetworking------+---------+ RFC 2100 Ashworth & Associates | Best Practices Wiki | | '87 e24 St Petersburg FL USA +-http://bestpractices.wikia.com-+ +1 727 647 1274 If you can read this... thank a system administrator. Or two. --me