Internet attack called broad and long lasting

Thu May 12 08:53:06 UTC 2005

Alexei Roudnev wrote:
>>>*Your* boxes may be hardened beyond all belief and plausibility, but
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> you're
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>>>*STILL* screwed if some teenaged kid on another continent has more
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> effective
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>>>control of the router at the other end of your OC-48 than the NOC monkey
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> you
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>>>call when things get wonky....
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> It is mostly fantasy. DNS security is much much more important and much more
> real issue, vs this fictions.
> If talking about Cisco, we have much more worries about chained bugs, vs
> teens controlled OC-48 routers...
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> I mean - it is _real_, but it is far behind _much more realistic_ problems.

You should listen to Vladis, he knows what he is talking about.

There have always and will always (sigh) be bugs. However, as people
keep saying... guns don't kill people, people kill people.