more on Tenet suggests limiting the Internet to approved users.

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

Begin forwarded message:

From: Rich Kulawiec <rsk () gsp org>
Date: December 4, 2004 8:01:51 PM EST
To: "Trei, Peter" <ptrei () rsasecurity com>
Cc: David Farber <dave () farber net>, Richard Forno 
<rforno () infowarrior org>
Subject: Re: [IP] Tenet suggests limiting the Internet to approved 
users.

Please forgive me for following up my own note, but I though you would
all find this highly amusing.  Or frustrating.  Or both.

Act I: Dr. Farber runs a note (on the IP list) from Peter in which
George Tenet is quoted as saying:

> "Access to networks like the World Wide Web might need to be limited to
> those who can show they take security seriously, he said."

Act II: I, in my usual smartass fashion, follow up with this:

> Well, that would rule out nearly every branch of federal, state
> and local government in the US.
>
> I'm all for it.  When do we start?

Act III: This afternoon, I find this note on the NANOG mailing list:

> From: Eric Brunner-Williams in Portland Maine <brunner () nic-naa net>
> To: nanog () merit edu
> Subject: ddos from .mil, and from state.oh.us
> Date: Sat, 04 Dec 2004 15:19:00 +0000
>
> Oki all,
>
> A month ago today Gadi was looking for a contact at US .mil, this 
> morning
> I had the same need, as a node in the nipr.mil playpen was a major 
> player
> in a 100+ node ddos directed at a web blog customer we host -- it had a
> high rate of fire, accounting for over 20% of the total POST methods.
>
> Email to the DO was a waste of time, but I did find a useful contact.
>
> One of the nodes used in today's ddos against that customer blog 
> appeard in
> a seperate multi-thousand ad insert (unpaid, naturally) attack on 
> another of
> our customer blogs, accounting for about half of the total POST 
> methods.
>
> If anyone has a useful contact in the state.oh.us playpen, please drop 
> me
> a line. Email since 24/Nov is unanswered.
>
> TiA,
> Eric

I think this has all the requisite ingredients of a bad made-for-TV 
movie.

---Rsk

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