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

  • From: Neil J. McRae
  • Date: Fri Aug 13 08:21:00 2004 
I like point 13 where you highlight how the system is doesn't
work. In anycase I doubt that this patent is any more valid 
outside of the blackholing part and I hope this gets stuck
in some lengthy patent legal argument preventing anyone
from using it! :-) Why not ask the banks to be 
responsible net users and protect their customers properly
with Token based authentication. Banks in Switzerland have
done this successfully.

Regards,
Neil.

> Just to ease peoples concerns, the patent has nothing to do 
> with blackholing.  A brief description of the way it works 
> can be found here:
> 
> http://www.scamslam.com/ScamSlam/whatis.shtml
> 
> We have not disclosed the site address to the "public" at 
> this stage, the text of the site is only draft form for the 
> purposes of editing and needs to be "polished".  Perhaps the 
> article wasn't as articulate in conveying this, but I'm sure 
> you appreciate journalists sometimes don't get it right :)
>