On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 4:48 PM, Tim Franklin <t...@pelican.org> wrote: >> Internet and phone connections across Britain could go into meltdown >> as BT workers threaten their first national strike for 23 years... >> >> ‘Many business and residential phonelines could go out of action, and >> if broadband crashes then thousands and thousands of people will find >> their internet goes down.’ >> >> http://www.metro.co.uk/news/828021-threat-of-bt-strike-could-affect-internet-and-phone-connections > > I get a lovely vision from that of a real old-style manual switchboard > operator, frantically plugging internet connections together with patch > cords as each SYN packet rings a little bell. > > Clearly BT engineers being on strike will stop broken things from > being fixed[0]. I'm very unclear how it will cause things that are > working today to suddenly "go into meltdown"... >
Look at it from an attackers point of view. If you're thinking about carrying out an electronic jihad of some kind when is the best time? A normal working day or during an engineers strike that only happens once every 23 years? -- Andrew http://sites.google.com/site/n3td3v/
