Re: Inter-ISP/Telco/X.25 security procedures?

[Rajesh Talpade <rrt () research telcordia com>]

> > > Please see Clifford Stoll's book The Cuckoo's Egg for a description
> > > of tracking an intruder across various PSTN, PSDN and Internet providers.
> > > I haven't seen a better description of the process.
>
> And there were, what?, three US ISPs back then?
>
> And when Stanford was getting hacked, where was BBN...
> Answer: right on the Stanford campus, in Stanford buildings!
>
> We don't have the same Internet architecture as we had
> during The Cuckoo's Egg era.


I was sort of wondering how long it would take for someone to send this
kind of a response.

I suppose my question should have included the phrase "current solutions" 
or equivalent.

Still hoping for some good answers....

Thanks.
Rajesh.