Cisco vulnerability and dangerous filtering techniques

Wed Jul 23 05:59:37 UTC 2003

On Tue, Jul 22, 2003 at 05:53:45PM -0400, Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu wrote:
> On Tue, 22 Jul 2003 17:51:20 EDT, alex at yuriev.com said:
> 
> > I guess all folks with Ph.D. at Akamai really are paid for nothing if a
> > virus could calculate that with a few traceroutes.
> 
> It's actually pretty easy if you get 20K distributed zombies doing the
> traceroutes and then distributing the data to each other.  Given that
> data, it's pretty easy to compute the graph - every router running BGP
> has to do similar. :)

Sounds like said virus implementor should go into the optimized routing 
business. Personally I'm gonna call bullshit on that one until I see it 
done.

> The Akamai problem is how to do it *without* having 20K boxes doing
> traceroutes. ;)

How many boxes does Akamai have? :)

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