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Re: Inter-ISP/Telco/X.25 security procedures?

  • From: Mark Kent
  • Date: Mon Sep 16 11:48:14 2002 
>> Please see Clifford Stoll's book The Cuckoo's Egg for a description
>> of tracking an intruder across various PSTN, PSDN and Internet providers.
>> I haven't seen a better description of the process.

And there were, what?, three US ISPs back then?

And when Stanford was getting hacked, where was BBN...
Answer: right on the Stanford campus, in Stanford buildings!

We don't have the same Internet architecture as we had
during The Cuckoo's Egg era.

-mark