Maybe GTE-Worldcom could do it. No one else. t On Tue, 9 Oct 2001, Andrew Plato wrote: > I am reasonably sure this can't be done. No single organization has the > power to block traffic en mass. The Internet is global. There are > millions of routers on foreign grounds that can send packets to routers > here in the USA. It would be impossible to command all those routers to > stop sending packets from Afghanistan. > > The whole nature of packet routing doesn't really allow for traffic > control at such a level. If a router doesn't know what to do with a > packet, it ships it to a different router that does. Basically, those > packets will keep on jumping around the Internet until they find a > router that will take care of them (or the packet's Time to Live, TTL > expires, which at 254 hops, the default, is a lot of hops to find a > router that cares). > > Furthermore, there is not any technology out there working at a macro > level to say "hey you're a packet from Afghanistan, you go in the trash > heap." We cannot practically put firewalls on every possible data line > into the USA. Seeing as how most firewalls melt down on heavily loaded > T-1s, I cannot imagine putting on on an OC-48. It would probably burst > into flames. > > Not to mention the fact that Osama could very easily call a friend in > Germany to send the email for him from an ISP in Germany. Now how would > we stop that? It would be coming from a German address? > > Sorry. > > ------------------------------------ > Andrew Plato > President / Principal Consultant > Anitian Corporation > > (503) 644-5656 office > (503) 201-0821 cell > http://www.anitian.com > Yahoo Messenger: Anitian > ------------------------------------ > > -----Original Message----- > From: HORN Dan E [mailto:dan.e.horn@private] > Sent: Tuesday, October 09, 2001 5:18 PM > To: CRIME@private > Subject: Bin Laden use of Internet > > > The world knows that Bin Laden and his followers used the Internet to > formulate an attack the US (shame on him). But to allow him to use it > in a similar manner to formulate another attack on the US would be > (parden my use of the term) same on us. Maybe I am to simplistic in > this line of thought, but, why can't we simply have the Internic block > all Internet traffic out of Afghanistan? Lets assume (I don't like that > word either but...) that Bin Laden is the ring leader, and that he makes > all of the major decisions and that his followers simply wait until they > are told to do something. If this assumption is true and Internet > traffic was not allowed out of that country then Bin Laden wouldn't be > able to communicate to them (using this technology), and they (the > sleepers) would simply continue to sleep. I know the Internet was > designed to exchange data but don't you think we should change the rules > during times of war? > > Another question: How is Bin Laden able to send out his messages during > this time of war (don't we want to keep is cry for help limited)? Is he > using satalites, if so can't the data being received on the statalite be > either blocked or tapped? > > > Thanks, > > > Dan >
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