Bellovin sez...
Friskies
alex at sprint.net
Fri Feb 20 18:39:07 UTC 1998
This has already happened about 50 times ;)
Alex
(i have no affiliation with anybody. Not even my parents)
On Fri, 20 Feb 1998, Michael Dillon wrote:
>
> Here's a quote from this story
> http://www.techweb.com/wire/story/TWB19980220S0001
>
> Both Bellovin and his AT&T colleague Matt Blaze cited the vulnerability
> of the Net's decentralized routing system, .... This routing
> information has been accidentally corrupted several times, they said,
> resulting in massive traffic flows being rerouted through single slow
> machines or blocked altogether.
>
> They said a hacker could also cause this kind of corruption.
>
> --
> Michael Dillon - Internet & ISP Consulting
> http://www.memra.com - E-mail: michael at memra.com
>
>
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