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Re: The somewhat illegal fix for NTP attacks


From: Landon <landonstewart () gmail com>
Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2014 14:13:24 -0800

On 21 February 2014 14:08, Baldur Norddahl <baldur.norddahl () gmail com>wrote:

Hi

The following would probably be illegal so do not actually do this. But
what if... there are just 4 billion IPv4 addresses. Scanning that
address-space for open NTP is trivially done in a few hours. Abusing these
servers for reflection attack is as trivial, hence the problem. How can we
get the responsible parties to fix their NTP servers?

Answer: DDoS them. With their own service.


/me gets some popcorn and waits for the show.

-- 
Landon Stewart <LandonStewart () Gmail com>


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