[Gllug] Bomb the ISP's

Alain Williams addw at phcomp.co.uk
Mon Sep 17 14:05:26 UTC 2001


On Mon, Sep 17, 2001 at 02:43:08PM +0100, Gordon Joly wrote:
> 
> >  Didn't the BBC report that the Taliban had shutdown Afghanistan's links to
> >  the Internet a few months ago, citing the usual reason of immorallity, etc ?
> >
> >That would have made it is little hard for any terrorists in Afghanistan to
> >coordinate attacks via the Internet.
> 
> 
> Unless they use satellite links?

No, the Taliban would never use satellite (think of the other immoral uses of
satellite). This seems like an excellent use of RFC 1149 (IP Datagrams on
Avian Carriers) - which I have only just realised was updated in 1999 by
RFC 2549.

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Alain Williams

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