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Re: Internet FUD Abound

  • From: Vadim Antonov
  • Date: Wed Jul 26 18:58:47 2000 
Sean Donelan wrote:

> On the other hand, there have been accidents (and perhaps some
> attacks) on the logical layer which have severely disrupted the
> Internet.  

There were confirmed attacks on carrier backbone routers as
early as 1994; the most damaging was by some Internet Liberation
Front.  Fortunately, they didn't have much clue about cisco
configurations, or they could pretty much disable the entire
Internet for a significant period of time.

--vadim