Re: AT&T early warning system

[S G Masood <sgmasood () yahoo com>]

--- Hoho <hoho () tacomeat net> wrote:
> On Fri, 2003-10-17 at 22:44, jkm wrote:
> > Quote 2:
> > "AT&T saw anomalies in its network three to four
> weeks before that worm
> > hit and was able to take certain precautions.
> "When the worm actually
> > happened, AT&T's network did not take a hit,''
> Eslambolchi said."
>
>
> Doesn't it seem like they're trying to violate
> causality? If the worm
> doesn't exist yet, then its associated traffic
> doesn't exist yet, hence
> there's nothing to detect.


...unless they had insider information that a worm
that exploits certain "anomalies" would be released in
"three to four weeks" :).
I didn't see the original article but maybe they are
referring to the DCOM worm brigade which was
anticipated and awaited weeks before it hit.


--
S.G.Masood
Hyderabad,
India.

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