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Re: Bellovin sez...

  • From: Friskies
  • Date: Fri Feb 20 14:09:47 1998 
This has already happened about 50 times ;)

Alex

(i have no affiliation with anybody.  Not even my parents)


On Fri, 20 Feb 1998, Michael Dillon wrote:

> 
> Here's a quote from this story
> http://www.techweb.com/wire/story/TWB19980220S0001
> 
>    Both Bellovin and his AT&T colleague Matt Blaze cited the vulnerability
>    of the Net's decentralized routing system, ....  This routing
>    information has been accidentally corrupted several times, they said,
>    resulting in massive traffic flows being rerouted through single slow
>    machines or blocked altogether.
> 
>    They said a hacker could also cause this kind of corruption. 
> 
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