[110499] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Ethical DDoS drone network
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Edward B. DREGER)
Tue Jan 6 21:13:29 2009
Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2009 02:13:19 +0000 (GMT)
From: "Edward B. DREGER" <eddy+public+spam@noc.everquick.net>
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <E5243C43-2B07-471A-834A-2C4335AEF49B@cisco.com>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
RD> Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2009 09:48:16 +0800
RD> From: Roland Dobbins
RD> When one has a network/system in which the basic security BCPs
RD> haven't been implemented, it makes little sense to expend scarce
RD> resources testing when those resources could be better-employed
RD> hardening and increasing the resiliency and robustness of said
RD> network/system.
Very true. "Hey, it really _did_ break!" is hardly a useful approach.
Your post awakened my inner cynic: Perhaps there are people who look to
stress-testing OPNs in hopes that the weakest link is elsewhere, so that
they may point the proverbial finger instead of fixing internal
problems.
#include "cost-shifting/patchining,smtp-auth,spf,urpf,et-cetera.h"
Eddy
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