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Re: Internet attack called broad and long lasting


From: "Alexei Roudnev" <alex () relcom net>
Date: Thu, 12 May 2005 01:30:36 -0700


*Your* boxes may be hardened beyond all belief and plausibility, but
you're
*STILL* screwed if some teenaged kid on another continent has more
effective
control of the router at the other end of your OC-48 than the NOC monkey
you
call when things get wonky....
It is mostly fantasy. DNS security is much much more important and much more
real issue, vs this fictions.
If talking about Cisco, we have much more worries about chained bugs, vs
teens controlled OC-48 routers...

I mean - it is _real_, but it is far behind _much more realistic_ problems.


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