-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Just taking a quick poll to see if nanog community would consider this a worthwhile effort to pursue? regards, /virendra - -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: FCC Outage Reports ..(.was Verizon outage in Southern California?) Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2005 21:26:51 +0300 (EEST) From: Juuso Lehtinen <jalehtin@cc.hut.fi> To: nanog@merit.edu References: <153C7BD7A0BE5E4C82C46650FEA94130050370BF@MKA46.pcc.int> <435873F1.7050702@socal.rr.com> <43592842.2050606@nrg4u.com> On Fri, 21 Oct 2005, Andre Oppermann wrote:

Here we see again that the secrecy ("to prevent terrorism") of this information costs more than having it in the open as the FCC did in the past. The whole terrorism sham was just a convenient excuse to prevent outsiders from assessing the quality of the carriers network.

In the field of security engineering, this is something called security through obscurity. Terrorists are well funded, and they, no doubt, can get hold on those 'secret' fiber maps if they have interest in them.

Do I feel better that neither me nor the terrorist know that my "redundant" fiber routes are in the same dig? Or in the same cable even? We all know how reliable the carriers bonus driven sales droid promises are...

Only ones suffering are us... - -- juuso lehtinen -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.5 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFDWUsYpbZvCIJx1bcRAh2IAJsGJqCMtsuyMjYSDJFhCjzI07GBKwCfW7aG uPBNNwW0I75xGyKP1Tlg9iw= =l5Jg -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----