[102661] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: YouTube IP Hijacking
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Will Hargrave)
Sun Feb 24 16:29:10 2008
Date: Sun, 24 Feb 2008 21:27:58 +0000
From: Will Hargrave <will@harg.net>
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <70D072392E56884193E3D2DE09C097A9EF0A@pascal.zaphodb.org>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
Tomas L. Byrnes wrote:
> Clearly, they are incensed by youtube content, so what makes anyone
> think that they would not be trying to engage in a case of Cyber-Jihad?
Because this usually doesn't work very well, is very evident, and easily
fixed? Even on a sleepy Sunday, it took 3491 about two hours to
filter/turn down 17557 and remove the problem. I bet most of their peers
say that's too slow, however :-)
> I generally don't assume malice when mere incompetence will suffice, but
> in the case of the Islamic world, they've proved themselves malicious
> towards the non-Islamic world often, and violently, enough, that I don't
> believe they deserve that presumption of innocence any more.
I think your perspective is a little off.
