Re: Cyberattack from the Pakistani government?

["Paul Ferguson" <fergdawg () netzero net>]

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- -- <rMslade () shaw ca> wrote:

> > > So a government order blocking an entire Web site isn't a cyberattack? 
> >
> > No. It is censorship, not a "cyber attack".
>
> No, couldn't be censorship, because, in this case, the net didn't route
> around it, but  
directly to it ...
> (Equally damaging, of course ...)


Well, there are two issues here, which unfortunately "overlapped"
for a brief period yesterday due to misconfiguration and subsequent
route leakage -- one intentional and other unintentional.

They just happened to share the same space briefly. :-)

- - ferg

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 Engineering Architecture for the Internet
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