I'm right there with you. I'm pretty sure the Internet would have crashed and burned long ago from human error if this was the case. People typically unintentionally bungle things worse than when they mean to. On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 4:39 PM, Jeroen van Aart <jeroen@mompl.net> wrote:
Steven Bellovin wrote:
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2010/05/08/business/AP-US-TEC-Fragile-Intern...
It's a pretty reasonable article, too, though I don't know that I agree about the "simplicity of the routing system"....
I am very skeptical whenever I see claims of this nature "If I do X I can bring down large global system Y in a matter of minutes/hours" where X involves something reasonably simple any single person with some skill could do.
-- Paul H Bosworth GSEC, GCFW, GCIH CCNP, CCIP, CCDP