Scientists Study Terrorist Internet Attack
Posted on: Thursday, 28 September 2006, 12:00 CDT
U.S. scientists say they simulated a terrorist attack on Internet reliability and discovered it would be very difficult to cause major disruptions.
The Ohio State University researchers said they wanted to determine what would happen to Net reliability in the United States if terrorists were able to knock out various physical components of the network.
When it comes to the Internet, there is strength in numbers, said Morton O'Kelly, co-author of the study and an Ohio State professor of geography. There are so many interconnections within the network that it would be difficult to find enough targets, and the right targets, to do serious damage to Internet reliability nationwide."
O'Kelly conducted the study with Hyun Kim, an OSU graduate student, and Changjoo Kim, assistant professor of geography at Minnesota State University.
For their research, the scientists developed computer simulations in which they studied a simplified nationwide Internet network.
The researcher used just five of the more than 30 major commercial Internet backbone providers, and three of the nation's major public access points -- Chicago, Dallas and San Francisco.
The study results were detailed in a recent issue of the journal Environment and Planning B.
Source: United Press International
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