Internet vulnerabilities

Sat Jul 6 01:30:41 UTC 2002

Sean made some good points: the +6hr disruption is a far reach without
serious physical damage.--Nearly as good a point as Eric's hallarious
abstraction--

Disgruntled employees, script kiddies, and all but the most diabolical
hate-group are only going to cost a moderate amount of cash in SLA
violations, a little theft and fraud, delayed or diminished revenues, and
excessive bandwidth consumption. We play Cops & Robbers, and get paid to do
it.

Hmmm, I think I'm talking myself into going to the bar....

jnull
PGP: 0x54B1A25C
"!!!!!" It's the little things ....

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-nanog at merit.edu [mailto:owner-nanog at merit.edu]On Behalf Of
Rizzo Frank
Sent: Friday, July 05, 2002 7:45 PM
To: nanog at merit.edu
Subject: RE: Internet vulnerabilities

Sean Donelan wrote:
 > Disrupting the Internet is a matter of scale and time.

Quick show of hands.  How many of you recently-laid-off engineers have
automated router-pampering scripts still running on your old
workstations, which nobody at your ex-employer knows about?  How many of
you still have enable?  Therein lies the real danger.

Frank "Mr. Wiggles" Rizzo