Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Homeland Security not ready for Cyber Storm
>
> ,----[ Quote ]
> | In June, the Business Roundtable issued a report saying that "the
> | United States is not sufficiently prepared for a major attack, software
> | incident or natural disaster that would lead to disruption of large parts
> | of the Internet" and that coordinating a response to such an attack
> | or disaster should be turned over to the Department of Homeland
> | Security.
> `----
>
> http://www.homelandstupidity.us/2006/09/18/homeland-security-not-ready-for-cyber-storm/
> http://tinyurl.com/lwp8y
>
> Windows botnets can paralyse the Internet infrastructure if properly
> used/targetted, rather than gain profits through extortions (DDOS attacks)
> and SPAM (E-mail, referrer, comments and so forth).
>
Windows botnets have already choked off enormous sections of the "internet
infrastructure" (really there's no such thing, it's controlled almost entirely
by about three american and two european companies--the "infrastructure" is
really a mass of shady deals between them to not just start unplugging eachother's
shit), which is one of the roots of why people are talking about net neutrality
so much.
If script kids and fake-hax0rz could live without botnets, and you bastards
could live without bittorrent (there's a better way to get your warez and porn,
and you're looking at it), things would be a hell of a lot cheaper and easier
for all of us.
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