BGP-based blackholing/hijacking patented in Australia?

Fri Aug 13 03:41:34 UTC 2004

> Andre Oppermann wrote:
> If you remember the very old story on Slashdot where
> some guy in Australia managed to secure a patent on a
> "circular transportation device" (a.k.a. "Wheel") it
> will explain many things... ;-)

I mean no disrespect to people from down under, but I have heard several
times that if Al Gore was Australian he would have secured a patent that
he invented the Internet...

Michel.