RE: The Backhoe: A Real Cyberthreat?

From: owner-nanog@merit.edu [mailto:owner-nanog@merit.edu] On Behalf

Of Daniel Golding

Sent: Friday, January 20, 2006 3:59 PM
To: sgorman1@gmu.edu

If I was a terrorist, I'd rather try to take out points of fiber

concentration, and my tool would not be a backhoe. I won't elaborate,
but I think most folks can > > figure out a few modalities of attack.

You're comments are spot on. There are far more simpler, destructive,
portable, scalable and inexpensive ways to achieve the same end. Any
fibre provider knows what they are and hopes they never happen.

An army of backhoes - that's funny.

Cheers

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