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its easy to bring down the Internet
October 30, 2003 06:29 PM
There is a good article in The Bulletin on the weakness of the Internet.
It is vulnerable to terrorist hacker attack through viruses. As one commentator, John Naughton, an Internet expert at Britain's Open University, put it:
The way Windows is designed, once a rogue hacker or virus gets into a system, it can do all sorts of malicious damage....If I were Al Qaeda, I wouldn't waste time with nuclear weapons. I'd be going to Microsoft training courses."
Software is a problematic area. Once a malicious hacker or virus gets into a system it can do all sorts of damage. And Microsoft is not doing very much to make its flawed and junky software secure.
Another problematic area are the roots servers that could be taken out physically with bombs, as could the big traffic hubs of the Web.
So you could have a combination of bombs and viruses: a adeadly combination.