Date: 10/07/05 (Computer Geeks)    Keywords: html, web

Theoretically, America's cellular network is extremely vulnerable to attack. If somebody wanted to bring down the cell service completely, they wouldn't need anything more than an approximage 400MBps bandwidth; easily accomplished with exploited computers. Even taking out a city wouldn't require much more than 2 or 3MBps. Since this vulnerability has been discovered, do you people think somebody might actually try it? What do you think the reprecussions would be for the affected areas? Since exploiting the system is merely using the system (just beyond it's capabilities), what kind of punishment do you think would be given if somebody got caught? Generally, what is your thoughts?

Here is some info on the exploit.
http://www.techweb.com/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=171203666

Here is the pdf file that describes the situation in detail:
http://www.smsanalysis.org/smsanalysis.pdf

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/computergeeks/791314.html