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Re: WP: Attack On Internet Called Largest Ever


From: dies <dies () pulltheplug com>
Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 01:05:30 -0400 (EDT)



Agreed...I worked these attacks on UUNET's backbone and quite honestly
none of them was over 100mbit worth of traffic.  We see this everyday,
this was nothing out of the ordinary except the destination...

Shrug...fear is an easy weapon to wield, eh?

On Tue, 22 Oct 2002, Richard A Steenbergen wrote:


On Tue, Oct 22, 2002 at 05:15:21PM -0400, Sean Donelan wrote:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A828-2002Oct22.html

The heart of the Internet sustained its largest and most sophisticated
attack ever, starting late Monday, according to officials at key online
backbone organizations.

Looked like a pretty piddly and unintelligent smurf/ping flood combo to
me. The state of the so-called "experts" saddens me more with each passing
day.

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