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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: Wired mag article on spammers playing traceroute games with trojanedboxes
>With all due respect, we have a *problem*. End user machines on >broadband connections are being misconfigured and/or compromised in >frightening numbers. These machines are being used for everything >from IRC flooder to spam engines, to DNS servers to massive DDoS >infrastructure. If the ability of a teenager to launch a gb/s DDoS, >or of someone DoSing mailservers off the internet with a trojan that >contains a spam engine is not operational, perhaps it's just me >that's confused. Why don't you come to the next NANOG in Miami in February and give a presentation on how people are doing these things? The trouble with a mailing list discussion is that it wanders all over the place. But at NANOG you could focus on the network operational issues of these networks of compromised machines. --Michael Dillon
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