17 Sep
2001
17 Sep
'01
3:56 p.m.
On Mon, 17 Sep 2001, Randy Bush wrote:
The big winners were cable TV, email, packet networks and IM applications. The big losers with cell phones, circuit switching, PSTN, non-akamized news sites.
no one went after the comms infrastructure. when they do, i suspect that we will find the internet is extremely vulnerable. how many folk even have md5 auth turned on their bgp peering sessions? what nievete!
randy
All US long-distance telephony infrastructure can be effectively disabled by a couple dozen or so backhoes digging in the right places. Even competing carriers often share cables. --vadim