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Re: CCO/cisco.com issues.

  • From: Richard Cox
  • Date: Mon Oct 06 20:11:34 2003 
On Mon, 06 Oct 2003 18:45:15 -0500
"Laurence F. Sheldon, Jr." <[email protected]> wrote:

| Now we have clear evidence that there are no less than three who
| understand the threat.

If you mean the threat from those who will attack and disable sites
because they don't like what people at those sites say or do, then I
assure you there are many who do understand that threat; some of whom
can see little difference in terms of effect between DDoS attacks run
by individuals, and the null-routing by a backbone network of IPs (or
ranges of IPs) for which they make BGP announcements.

Both are actions designed to interfere with individual freedoms;
both are serious operational issues, and need to be discussed here.

Or was it a different kind of threat that you were referring to, which
might have discouraged some who understand the real threat from talking
about it?

-- 
Richard Cox