Using C3I attacks to suplement a CBRN arsenal (Score 1)

Previous comments in this thread have concentrated on the article author's mistake of adding C3I attacks into CBRN arsenals, as they are fundamentally different. Assuming that the author intended to show what traditional CBRN threats might do in the future, however, leads me to believe that he has a valid point.

If I were a global terrorist in the early 21st century, I would pay a lot of attention to the rampant insecurity of COTS installations at most web sites and ISPs. I would select my intended casualty audience and determine which type of damage (theft, threats, service outages, etc) would best terrorize that population. Then I would make a dynamic map of the C3I needs of that population, extended to include power, and find the most cost effective attack points. Perhaps that means exploiting poor RIP/BGP protocol interactions at the MAE level to disrupt North American Internet traffic during a televised protest, bombing Pamplona's power grid, or jamming AT&T switching equipment on Mother's Day.

The point is that a few Evil Geeks could do some really bad things to internet service if they were reasonably motivated and had attended the right party at DefCon. It seems likely that a terrorist organization willing to unleash Sarin on innocents would be quite interested in causing those bad things to happen.

Caezar

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