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Re: Internet attack called broad and long lasting


From: Gadi Evron <ge () linuxbox org>
Date: Thu, 12 May 2005 12:53:06 +0400


Alexei Roudnev wrote:
*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.

You should listen to Vladis, he knows what he is talking about.

There have always and will always (sigh) be bugs. However, as people
keep saying... guns don't kill people, people kill people.


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