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  From: Grant <grant@conprojan.com.au>
  To  : Linux SA <linuxsa@linuxsa.org.au>
  Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2001 09:53:15 +1000 (EST)

Re: Southern Cross.

> > Isn't the latest issue with the apparently broken segment of the cable
> > highlighting the fact that it is trivial to kill any internet link to
> > Australia? Doesn't anyone think that this is a nice niche for some form
> > terrorism?
> 
> 'Terrorism' is about Terror.
> 
> There isn't really much terror in slowing down people's web access, no
> matter how important we consider our data links to be..

Ok so I didn't use the correct word. "people's web access" how about a few
days downtime for companies running critical services? That has to hurt.
We don't just use the internet for web access.

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