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RE: BGP-based blackholing/hijacking patented in Australia?

  • From: Neil J. McRae
  • Date: Thu Aug 12 09:49:52 2004

 
http://www.linx.net/papers/blocking/Blackhole%20Policy%20Announcement%20Serv
ice%20-%20LINX%20position%20paper%20FINAL.pdf

Is the paper for those who are interested. Malcolm Hutty <[email protected]>
did a lot of the good work on this paper.

Regards,
Neil.
 
I Wrote:

> Niels,
> The UK government have looked at this as a possibility to use 
> this non-technology as away for the banks to advise ISP's 
> about false bank logon schemes "phishing sites".
> 
> The UK industry lead by the members of the London Internet 
> Exchange responded with a paper outlining how this 
> non-solution was fatally flawed and would actually not 
> resolve this problem at all, and actually give a false sense 
> of security. The UK government has since agreed with the 
> industry and is working on other possible solutions, like the 
> banks solving their own problem with token like technologies 
> etc, rather than let us poor operators solve their problems for them. 
> 
> I hope this "non-technology" gets the patent it deserves!
> 
> Regards,
> Neil.
> 
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