Re: [funsec] Al-Qaeda Plot to Bring Down UK Internet?

[Peter Evans <peter@ixp.jp>]

Fergie (fergdawg@netzero.net) wrote:
> that terrorist suspects had targeted a high-security internet _hub_ in
> London.
 
> The facility, in Docklands, houses the channel through which almost every
> bit of information on the internet passes in or out of Britain.

	It used to be the case that all you would have to do to disrupt
	95% of Japan's internet would be to seriously damage the KDDI building
	in Ohtemachi. (Its a big red lump, I have fond memories of it, not)

	You don't have to destroy the building a la ID4, just damage it sufficiently
	to be unsafe. As this is earthquake country, you may need a fairly large
	van full of ammonium nitrate and friends. At night, this building has a 
	skeleton guard and no one sane lives in Ohtemachi.

	That isn't the case anymore, since they went distributed, you'd need more
	vans. Far better to knock out the landing stations with a happy missile or
	two. (Less risk of human casualties out there[1] and we all know that nothing
	turns public sentiment against terrorists faster than killing the proletariat.)

	You could disrupt power to such centres. That's fairly easy, except for the
	mothership, since tepco built a datacentre on top of a large substation. At which
	point the gas turbines would spin up, they probably melt as they don't seem to
	test them under load.

	But probably the best terrorism comes from not being obvious, not being seen,
	nor being provable. I mean, everyone's heard of ghosts, right ...

	p




[1] Then again, playing with radioactives in plastic buckets in a factory with a town
    around it isn't unknown, is it.
 
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