[191798] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Krebs on Security booted off Akamai network after DDoS attack
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Patrick W. Gilmore)
Tue Sep 27 11:40:17 2016
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From: "Patrick W. Gilmore" <patrick@ianai.net>
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Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2016 11:37:33 -0400
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On Sep 27, 2016, at 11:35 AM, Roland Dobbins <rdobbins@arbor.net> wrote:
> =08On 27 Sep 2016, at 21:48, Brielle Bruns wrote:
>> You start cutting off users or putting them into a walled garden =
until they fix their machines, and they will start caring.
>=20
> It's important to keep in mind that in the not-so-distant future, =
their 'machines' will include every article of clothing they own, every =
can of soda in their refrigerator, ever major (and many minor) =
components of their automobiles, every blade in their windowshades, etc.
All the more reason to educate people TODAY on why having vulnerable =
devices is a Very Bad Idea.
If we try to teach them when a 6-pack of Coke is a DDoS source, we will =
have lost.
--=20
TTFN,
patrick
