David Baxter PhD
Late Founder
Our fancy Internet infrastructure operates on a wire and a prayer
by Larry Dignan, ZDNet
April 10th, 2009
The fiber-optic outage?actually sabotage?in the Bay Area on Thursday reveals a dirty little secret: Our infrastructure is ridiculously vulnerable and it only takes a few vandals (or terrorists) to bring communication to its knees.
While it?s unclear what exactly happened, AT&T is offering a $100,000 reward to find the vandals that cut into fiber optic wires and whacked everything from hosting centers?including a few of our own?911 calls and other communication (Techmeme). Sam said it best: No matter how advanced we get we?re still hooked up to a big wire somewhere.
That?s not going to change. The big question: How are we going to protect those big wires?
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by Larry Dignan, ZDNet
April 10th, 2009
The fiber-optic outage?actually sabotage?in the Bay Area on Thursday reveals a dirty little secret: Our infrastructure is ridiculously vulnerable and it only takes a few vandals (or terrorists) to bring communication to its knees.
While it?s unclear what exactly happened, AT&T is offering a $100,000 reward to find the vandals that cut into fiber optic wires and whacked everything from hosting centers?including a few of our own?911 calls and other communication (Techmeme). Sam said it best: No matter how advanced we get we?re still hooked up to a big wire somewhere.
That?s not going to change. The big question: How are we going to protect those big wires?
...more
