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


From: Sean Donelan <sean () donelan com>
Date: Mon, 16 Sep 2002 13:24:38 -0400 (EDT)


On Mon, 16 Sep 2002, Mark Kent wrote:
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 would love to become educated on today's process.  Please share
how the inter-ISP security procedures have changed.



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