What happens when someone attacks your fibre networks?
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 http://perens.com/works/articles/MorganHill/ "The city of Morgan Hill and parts of three counties lost 911 service, cellular mobile telephone communications, land-line telephone, DSL internet and private networks, central station fire and burglar alarms, ATMs, credit card terminals, and monitoring of critical utilities. In addition, resources that should not have failed, like the local hospital's internal computer network, proved to be dependent on external resources, leaving the hospital with a "paper system" for the day." (continues in the article). To summarise, it's all very well having redundant systems but if someone takes to the telco infrastructure you still need something that's entirely distinct. Otherwise you end up in a wee bit of a pickle. It's a good case, as if further ones were needed, against BPL. If the power's up but the telco networks are down, interference with ham radio is a "bad thing"[tm]. - -- Matthew Poole "Don't use force. Get a bigger hammer." -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.8 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFJ78f8TdEtTmUCdpwRAtuHAJ9ytrxlD9yY7sTN1ScPldX5qo4ynwCeK4YM HHa8f1TryqH5jpfTbspTXfM= =QKQe -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
If you enjoy this sort of thing you might get a kick out of Peter G. Neumann's Risks list - http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Risks/ Cheers, Gerard On 23/04/2009 1:44 p.m., Matthew Poole wrote:
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"The city of Morgan Hill and parts of three counties lost 911 service, cellular mobile telephone communications, land-line telephone, DSL internet and private networks, central station fire and burglar alarms, ATMs, credit card terminals, and monitoring of critical utilities. In addition, resources that should not have failed, like the local hospital's internal computer network, proved to be dependent on external resources, leaving the hospital with a "paper system" for the day." (continues in the article).
To summarise, it's all very well having redundant systems but if someone takes to the telco infrastructure you still need something that's entirely distinct. Otherwise you end up in a wee bit of a pickle. It's a good case, as if further ones were needed, against BPL. If the power's up but the telco networks are down, interference with ham radio is a "bad thing"[tm].
- -- Matthew Poole "Don't use force. Get a bigger hammer." -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.8 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org
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