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Re: Internet vulnerabilities
From: Eric Gauthier <eric () roxanne org>
Date: Fri, 5 Jul 2002 11:11:54 -0400
:: Said in my best Dr. Evil voice :: Ok, here is my master plan to take down the Internet. First, we will spend two weeks writing up several hundred seemingly simple, short questions and innane statements regarding ORBS, filtering RFC1918 space, Peering, and all of Nanog's other favorite topics. Then, we'll start posting the messages to NANOG addressed from two seemingly intelligent ex-dot-comer's named Bob and Jay. Thus, our code name for this project will be "Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back". We'll start by sending the first message out to NANOG. Now, you know that all the IMPORTANT engineers on the Internet have no way to resist reading these messages and responding to them. The threads will begin to build in traffic during the subsequent hours taking up the precious brain power of critical engineers. Every hour, we will submit a new message from our database - sent, of course, through some open relay so the message sources are randomized and hard to filter and with private source addresses so they cannot be traced. After a single day, the traffic level on NANOG will be so great that it will have effectively consumed all available resources for every NANOG member, rendering them completely unable to do any work. The traffic from these emails, which are replicated and amplified by engineers who can't resist responding to our innane, repetative, and silly messages, will grow exponentially until all peers and backbone circuits on the Internet are full. No one will notice their threshold alarms going off. No one will notice HPOV desperately trying to page them. No one will see the tickets queuing in their ticket systems. No one will notice Instant Messages from loved ones warning them that the Internet is imploding. No one will see us as we move in and take over the world!!!!!! Any questions? :: reaches for a hot pocket :: Dr. Evil.
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- RE: Internet vulnerabilities Gwendolynn ferch Elydyr (Jul 04)
- RE: Internet vulnerabilities Phil Rosenthal (Jul 04)
- RE: Internet vulnerabilities Dan Hollis (Jul 04)
- Re: Internet vulnerabilities Sandy Harris (Jul 04)
- Re: Internet vulnerabilities David Ulevitch (Jul 04)
- RE: Internet vulnerabilities Phil Rosenthal (Jul 04)
- Re: Internet vulnerabilities Jason Lewis (Jul 04)
- RE: Internet vulnerabilities Phil Rosenthal (Jul 04)
- RE: Internet vulnerabilities Deepak Jain (Jul 04)
- RE: Internet vulnerabilities Stephen J. Wilcox (Jul 05)
- Re: Internet vulnerabilities Eric Gauthier (Jul 05)
- Re: Internet vulnerabilities Randy Bush (Jul 05)
- RE: Internet vulnerabilities Deepak Jain (Jul 04)
- RE: Internet vulnerabilities jnelson (Jul 04)
- Re: Internet vulnerabilities Richard A Steenbergen (Jul 04)
- RE: Internet vulnerabilities jnelson (Jul 04)
- RE: Internet vulnerabilities Martin Hannigan (Jul 04)
- Re: Internet vulnerabilities David Lesher (Jul 04)
- Re: Internet vulnerabilities Paul Vixie (Jul 04)