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Re: Vulnerbilities of Interconnection
From: Kurt Erik Lindqvist <kurtis () kurtis pp se>
Date: Mon, 16 Sep 2002 13:14:01 +0200
That's a good question. Is the net really a criticial resource? If a lifegets saved through involvement of the internet, it is news. Lifes are saved by calling for assistence through the telephone network every day all over the world as a matter of routine.
Well, it's more a question of what you want the Internet to become? We can't expect to have better quality than the most critical application that we run over it....
It's not how much something is used, but how bad it would be to go withoutit. During september 11th, the phone service didn't work very well, andthe internet did a lot better. I think just about anyone would have tradedthe latter for the former in a second.
I think we are using the word "emergency" with different meanings here. Assume that a nation is cut of from it's Internet access in one way or the other due to war, natural disasters etc. In these scenarios a not functioning
Internet might actually be a problem due to the time of the outage.
In the event of a emergency, I would very much like to be as able to reach my bank via the net as walking into their offices.Yes, because banks are such a critical resource when there is an emergency...
If there was a natural disaster and I could not reach my banks office I would very much like to
be able to use the on-line bank instead...
that was in the good old dayswhen business was booming. I'm sure they're cutting corners left right andcenter at the moment.
Agreed - and this is where I think we have real problem.... - kurtis -
Current thread:
- Re: Vulnerbilities of Interconnection, (continued)
- 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)
- Re: Vulnerbilities of Interconnection Stephen J. Wilcox (Sep 14)
- Re: Vulnerbilities of Interconnection alex (Sep 13)
- Re: Vulnerbilities of Interconnection Dave Israel (Sep 13)
- Re: Vulnerbilities of Interconnection Kurtis Lindqvist (Sep 16)
- Re: Vulnerbilities of Interconnection Iljitsch van Beijnum (Sep 16)
- Re: Vulnerbilities of Interconnection Kurt Erik Lindqvist (Sep 16)
- Re: Vulnerbilities of Interconnection JC Dill (Sep 16)
- Re: Vulnerbilities of Interconnection Marshall Eubanks (Sep 16)
- Re: Vulnerbilities of Interconnection Gerald (Sep 16)
- Re: Vulnerbilities of Interconnection alex (Sep 16)
- Re: Vulnerbilities of Interconnection Stephen J. Wilcox (Sep 16)
- why superior solutions aren't (Re: Vulnerbilities of Interconnection) E.B. Dreger (Sep 16)
- Re: Vulnerbilities of Interconnection Iljitsch van Beijnum (Sep 16)
- Re: Vulnerbilities of Interconnection Gerald (Sep 16)
- Re: Vulnerbilities of Interconnection Greg Maxwell (Sep 16)
- Re: Vulnerbilities of Interconnection Kurt Erik Lindqvist (Sep 17)