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RE: Vulnerbilities of Interconnection
From: "Jeff Shultz" <jeffshul () wvi com>
Date: Fri, 06 Sep 2002 14:01:24 -0700
*********** REPLY SEPARATOR *********** On 9/6/2002 at 1:42 PM Al Rowland wrote:
Okay, If we're going to go off the deep end here, how about the effect of a small yield air burst over $importantplace? Not designed to maximize casualties/damage but rather EMP? A large number of senior military officials got that 'deer-in-the-headlights' look a few decades back
when
a deserter supplied "Soviet state of the art" fighter turned out to
have
tube based electronics. :)
Said tube electronics were apparently more survivable against EMP effects. Or was that the point you were making? I think the real surprise was a toggle switch that Belenko said was supposed to be flipped only when told over the radio by higher headquarters. It changed the characteristics of the radar.... sort of a "go to war" mode vs. the standard training mode. An interesting, if not totally professional evaluation of something like this is in Steven Coonts book "America" where terrorists take over an American nuclear submarine armed with a new type of Tomahawk warhead - an EMP warhead. One of the early targets is AOL HQ in Reston, VA., (I almost cheered). Coonts has an inflated idea of what an outage there would do the the internet... but there is a lot of other stuff fairly nearby, isn't there? -- Jeff Shultz Network Support Technician Willamette Valley Internet 503-769-3331 (Stayton) 503-390-7000 (Salem) tech () wvi com ...most of us have as our claim to fame the ability to talk to inanimate objects and convince them they want to listen to us. -- Valdis Kletnieks in a.s.r
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- Re: Vulnerbilities of Interconnection, (continued)
- Re: Vulnerbilities of Interconnection Christopher L. Morrow (Sep 06)
- Re: Vulnerbilities of Interconnection alex (Sep 06)
- Re: Vulnerbilities of Interconnection batz (Sep 06)
- Re: Vulnerbilities of Interconnection Pawlukiewicz Jane (Sep 06)
- Re: Vulnerbilities of Interconnection William Waites (Sep 06)
- Re: Vulnerbilities of Interconnection Jared Mauch (Sep 06)
- RE: Vulnerbilities of Interconnection Daniel Golding (Sep 06)
- Re: Vulnerbilities of Interconnection Dave Israel (Sep 06)
- Re: Vulnerbilities of Interconnection Tim Thorne (Sep 06)
- RE: Vulnerbilities of Interconnection Al Rowland (Sep 06)
- RE: Vulnerbilities of Interconnection Jeff Shultz (Sep 06)
- RE: Vulnerbilities of Interconnection Brad Knowles (Sep 06)
- RE: Vulnerbilities of Interconnection Jeff Shultz (Sep 06)
- Re: Vulnerbilities of Interconnection Valdis . Kletnieks (Sep 06)
- Re: Vulnerbilities of Interconnection Stephen J. Wilcox (Sep 06)
- Re: Vulnerbilities of Interconnection John M. Brown (Sep 06)
- Re: Vulnerbilities of Interconnection Kurt Erik Lindqvist (Sep 11)
- Re: Vulnerbilities of Interconnection John M. Brown (Sep 12)
- Re: Vulnerbilities of Interconnection Sean Donelan (Sep 12)
- Re: Vulnerbilities of Interconnection Stephen J. Wilcox (Sep 13)
- Re: Vulnerbilities of Interconnection Iljitsch van Beijnum (Sep 13)