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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: Access to the Internic Blocked
On Thu, 22 Aug 1996, Vadim Antonov wrote: > I sometimes wonder if the threat of hackers is exaggregated. > They certainly missed a nice opportunity to crash the Internet > with TCP resets on iBGPs. Now nobody cares about the creative > potential of LSRR-anonymized denial of service attacks. They > must be stupid or something. No. They just can't see the forest for the trees. In other words, hackers focus on the hosts not on the network infrastructure. And since they depend on the network to carry their attacks to their hosts of interest they don't have much incentive to attack the net itself. Michael Dillon - ISP & Internet Consulting Memra Software Inc. - Fax: +1-604-546-3049 http://www.memra.com - E-mail: [email protected] - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
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