[11521] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: how to protect name servers against cache corruption
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Michael Dillon)
Thu Jul 31 12:15:21 1997
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SUN.3.95.970731035231.16556H-100000@access.netaxs.com>
Date: Thu, 31 Jul 1997 09:15:03 -0700
To: nanog@merit.edu
From: Michael Dillon <michael@priori.net>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
At 3:54 AM -0400 7/31/97, Alexander O. Yuriev wrote:
>> a. not talk publicly about this lest the cracker community learn too much
>
>Sure. Now how do you propose to make sure that only good guys know about
>bad things? Mathematically it is impossible. It is a set theory
I don't propose to "make sure" that only good guys know, I just suggest
that it is better to not spread the info publicly when you don't know who
is listening in. Why make the bad guys job easier?
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