Barry Shein wrote:
On May 29, 2008 at 06:46 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Joel Jaeggli) wrote:
> Dorn Hetzel wrote:
> > Yeah, there was a day when anyone could buy a pickup truck full of
> > ammonium nitrate fertilizer from a random feed store and not attract any
> > attention at all, now, maybe not. Just like port 25, it has plenty of
> > legitimate uses, and some more problematic ones.
>
> Equating port 25 use with domestic terrorism is specious.
>
> Ammonium nitrate requires requires some care in handling regardless of
> your intentions,see for exmple the oppau or texas city disasters.
And how different is that from the million+ strong zombie botnets? Who
owns (not pwns) those zombie'd systems and what were their intentions?
Well let's see. The texas city disaster is/was considered the worst
industrial accident in american history. 581 people killed by an
explosive yield of about 2 kilotons. The secondary effects includes
fires in many of the chemical facilities in Galveston and a swath of
destruction that reached up to 40 miles inland...
http://www.local1259iaff.org/disaster.html
So no, I don't think internet attached hosts can casually equated with
the destructive potential of a pile of fertilizer at least not in the
context described.