[11110] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: question about per. hack
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Paul A Vixie)
Mon Jul 21 19:37:26 1997
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 21 Jul 1997 19:04:40 EDT."
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Date: Mon, 21 Jul 1997 16:30:29 -0700
From: Paul A Vixie <vixie@vix.com>
>>i think this is the first time. i'm cc'ing NANOG since several folks there
>>are wondering exactly why i think the FBI should get involved and why i think
>>eugene kashpureff should be jailed.
>
> Mr. Kashpureff has been kind enough to document his work at:
> http://www.alternic.net/press/
What Mr. Kashpureff isn't saying is that he's not just leaking bad data
when someone asks him about something in the normal case of DNS events;
he is actively sweeping through the public NS RR lists and causing those
servers to ask his servers questions whose answers contain intentional
cache corruption.
Leaking the data would be a "hack." Causing other people to ask questions
to which you then send intentionally corrupt answers is a "crack." I am
astonished that here we are days later and it's still occuring. Usually
the teenagers who perpetrate this kind of stupidity are arrested and have
their PC's confiscated.
