[191365] in North American Network Operators' Group
"Defensive" BGP hijacking?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Hugo Slabbert)
Sun Sep 11 16:54:26 2016
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Date: Sun, 11 Sep 2016 13:54:18 -0700
From: Hugo Slabbert <hugo@slabnet.com>
To: North American Network Operators' Group <nanog@nanog.org>
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Hopefully this is operational enough, though obviously leaning more towards=
the policy side of things:
What does nanog think about a DDoS scrubber hijacking a network "for defen=
sive purposes"?
http://krebsonsecurity=2Ecom/2016/09/alleged-vdos-proprietors-arrested-in-=
israel/
"For about six hours, we were seeing attacks of more than 200 Gbps hitting=
us,=E2=80=9D Townsend explained=2E =E2=80=9CWhat we were doing was for def=
ensive purposes=2E We were simply trying to get them to stop and to gather =
as much information as possible about the botnet they were using and report=
that to the proper authorities=2E=E2=80=9D
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Hugo Slabbert=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0 | email, xmpp/jabber: hu=
go@slabnet=2Ecom
pgp key: B178313E=C2=A0=C2=A0 | also on Signal
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