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Re: China would *never* do that ...
From: Larry Seltzer <larry () larryseltzer com>
Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2010 14:03:57 -0500
Imagine you're the Chinese. "They think we can pull that off? This could be useful..." Of course misconfiguring your router is not hard to do. About 6 years ago a Turkish ISP tried (accidentally I'm sure) to jack the entire Internet this way. (http://www.renesys.com/blog/2005/12/internetwide-nearcatastrophela.shtml) But if you're expecting to take advantage of the rerouting in order to co-opt a network it's a lot harder, and I can't imagine you could pull it off in 18 minutes. Assuming the traffic wasn't encrypted, in which case you're probably screwed, you'd need substantial information on the workings of the network and it would all have to be set up correctly from the get-go or it would be obvious that something was wrong. (me on all this: http://blogs.pcmag.com/securitywatch/2010/11/did_china_hijack_the_internet .php) LJS -----Original Message----- From: funsec-bounces () linuxbox org [mailto:funsec-bounces () linuxbox org] On Behalf Of Rob, grandpa of Ryan, Trevor, Devon & Hannah Sent: Friday, November 19, 2010 1:25 PM To: funsec () linuxbox org Subject: [funsec] China would *never* do that ... "A U.S. report to Congress that suggests there is Chinese state support for internet network hacking activities is "full of Cold War thinking and political bias," China's Foreign Ministry said Friday." http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2010/11/19/china-hacking-.html (You will notice they never said it wasn't true ...) ====================== (quote inserted randomly by Pegasus Mailer) rslade () vcn bc ca slade () victoria tc ca rslade () computercrime org *Microsoft* is going to write the software that spies on me? I feel better already. - John D. Goulden victoria.tc.ca/techrev/rms.htm blog.isc2.org/isc2_blog/slade/index.html http://blogs.securiteam.com/index.php/archives/author/p1/ http://www.infosecbc.org/links http://twitter.com/rslade _______________________________________________ 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. _______________________________________________ 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.
Current thread:
- China would *never* do that ... Rob, grandpa of Ryan, Trevor, Devon & Hannah (Nov 19)
- Re: China would *never* do that ... Paul Ferguson (Nov 19)
- Re: China would *never* do that ... Larry Seltzer (Nov 19)