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Fred A. Miller

27 Jul 2000 27 Jul '00

15:38

http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2607716,00.html

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Eduardo Carriles

27 Jul 27 Jul

18:49

New subject: [suse-security] ZDNet: Scientists spot Achilles' heel of the Internet!

Hi Mr. Miller, Thanks, you reported using a infinitesimal spot. Hi all, Surprising short report on "Achilles' heel of the Internet ", "Error and attack tolerance of complex networks" [Nature] related to the posted bellow, by "Fred A. Miller": Excerpt of "Error and attack tolerance of complex networks" by: "RÉKA ALBERT, HAWOONG JEONG & ALBERT-LÁSZLÓ BARABÁSI" On Nature 406, 378 - 382 (2000) © Macmillan Publishers Ltd. "...relatively simple organisms grow, persist and reproduce despite drastic pharmaceutical or environmental interventions, an error tolerance..." ORGANICS related?, not so: "...the Internet, social networks and cells." "We find that such networks display an unexpected degree of robustness, the ability of their nodes to communicate being unaffected even by unrealistically high failure rates. However, ....." http://www.nature.com/cgi-taf/DynaPage.taf?file=/nature/journal/v406/n6794/a... Elegant!!! These were my thoughts. =:`) ---- "Fred A. Miller" wrote:

http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2607716,00.html

-- HTH Best regards, Eduardo Carriles [-- Better a smile than a flame --] (Long time SuSE-Linux [preferred distro] user). [-- Se me nota mucho? -- Notices me much?] [-- Have a lot of fun...]

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Kurt Seifried

19:22

New subject: [suse-security] ZDNet: Scientists spot Achilles' heel of the Internet!

http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2607716,00.html

Gee wow. Same goes for any communications system that is international, the trans oceanic links are few and far between. Same for long haul fiber links in any country, some idiot in a backhoe managed to take out on of the main pipes into Washington DC and really screw things up for a day a few years back. I also remmeber a fiber cut, when I phoned UUNET they were like "sorry sir, Pittsburgh, well... it's gone". hell, just last week someone locally cut fiber between the Oliver CO and the centrex, leaving me hanging in the wind for 12+ hours (road construction, everyone knew the fiber was there, but someone made a mistake). Ditto for any road system, take out one or two bridges in any major city and splat. This is hardly news. Calling them cyberterrorists is stupid too, am I a cyberterrorist if I take a pair of wirecuters and cut someone's phoneline with they are dialed in? What does this have to do wth SuSE security BTW? -Kurt

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Eduardo Carriles

20:08

New subject: [suse-security] ZDNet: Scientists spot Achilles' heel of the Internet!

Hi Kurt, Kurt Seifried wrote:

[snip...] What does this have to do wth SuSE security BTW?

Perhaps not much, but it is attractive. Nonsingle with SuSE but with all the security in general. Noticed "Nature" involved?? Not only "excavating machines". -- Best regards, Eduardo Carriles [-- Better a smile than a flame --] (Long time SuSE-Linux [preferred distro] user). [-- Se me nota mucho? -- Notices me much?] [-- Have a lot of fun...]

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