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Re: They crashed the Internet!
From: "Paul Ferguson" <fergdawg () netzero net>
Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2008 23:29:58 GMT
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 - -- <rms () computerbytesman com> wrote:
Looks like someone was able to crash the Internet. Or at least a pretty big
chunk of it. Boat anchors appear to be more potent weapons however than DDoS software:
Internet failure hits two continents http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/meast/01/31/dubai.outage/index.html
There's actually pretty good AP background article on this: http://www.physorg.com/news121022065.html - - ferg -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP Desktop 9.6.3 (Build 3017) wj8DBQFHolnoq1pz9mNUZTMRAuyYAJ9+mzNioHLdnY2nrNg/WJ8W5Sax/wCguPSP BhZdV7fERM6dIkSaMxLjs+Y= =/jb9 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- "Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson Engineering Architecture for the Internet fergdawg(at)netzero.net ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/ _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
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