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[email protected] wrote: > > On Mon, 6 Oct 2003, Allan Liska wrote: > > > KS> The following well-remembered lines come to mind here, and excuse me if > > KS> you hear a slight hysterical laughter from my direction: > > > > I don't know what your post has to do with the original topic, but if > > you don't like the way NONOG is moderated, please feel free to start > > your own Network Operators mailing list. > > I'm only guessing here, but I think what he may have meant was: > > First They Came for the IRC bots > and I did not speak out > because I did not run a bot. > Then They Came for the IRC servers > and I did not speak out > because I did not run an IRC server. > ...skip a few years... > Then They Came for the DNSBLs > and I did not speak out > because I did not run a DNSBL. > > Now that they've come for cisco, maybe law enforcement, network operators, > and router vendors will all get their $h!t together and do something to > put a stop to these DDoS attacks that have been going on in various forms > for several years. > > A handful of people (an assumption on my part) have the power / > distributed bandwidth to bring just about any internet site/network to its > knees using the distributed.net meets DoS tools they've created and > distributed to thousands, perhaps millions of internet connected windows > boxes. > > Anyone who doesn't think that's an operational issue, just wait until it > bites you on the ass. Now we have clear evidence that there are no less than three who understand the threat.
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