[79662] in Cypherpunks
Re: Spam Update/Cyber Promo attacked
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill Frantz)
Thu May 8 01:02:47 1997
In-Reply-To: <v03020902af966ed17bf4@[139.167.130.248]>
Date: Wed, 7 May 1997 20:35:46 -0700
To: Robert Hettinga <rah@shipwright.com>, cypherpunks@toad.com
From: Bill Frantz <frantz@netcom.com>
Reply-To: Bill Frantz <frantz@netcom.com>
At 10:39 AM -0700 5/7/97, Robert Hettinga forwarded:
>The hackers have devised
>a system which sends millions of random "arp" requests to a router, which
>can disable the whole network for hours. This type of attack has never
>occurred before.
It is quite obvious to anyone who cares to give it even a moment's thought
that the currently installed Internet Protocols are still in the age of
cooperative communicators. While some work, e.g. DNSSEC, has addressed
part of this problem, the bulk of it remains.
Now, if we could only go back 30 years and give C a reasonable string
model, we might be able to eliminate 50% of the known holes in Unix
security.
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