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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 - -- Hank Nussbacher <[email protected]> wrote: >At 11:32 PM 27-08-08 -0500, John Lee wrote: >>Thanks guys, going back to my Comer one more time. My issue, question was >> whether the organization doing the hijacking controlled all of the >>routers in the new modified path or only some of them? >> >>John (ISDN) Lee > >They didn't have control of any routers other than their own. What they had to find is a single clueless upstream ISP that would allow them to announce prefixes that didn't belong to them. > *bing* Trust is the major exploit here. That has never been "new". - - ferg -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP Desktop 9.6.3 (Build 3017) wj8DBQFItkFQq1pz9mNUZTMRAgqHAJ4ogryvjftxw5CQTWhf0c7VyBBXyQCfUo9w qdK2kEWHY/B1AU/rGNikOlg= =d/L7 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- "Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson Engineering Architecture for the Internet fergdawg(at)netzero.net ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/ |