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Re: Krebs on Security booted off Akamai network after DDoS attack

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Roland Dobbins)
Tue Sep 27 11:43:57 2016

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From: Roland Dobbins <rdobbins@arbor.net>
To: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2016 22:37:44 +0700
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On 27 Sep 2016, at 12:17, Sam Silvester wrote:

> or call their electricity retailer/distributer

This is the problematic case that is, unfortunately, the default.

People tend to view anything related to 'the Internet' as a utility, and 
for consumers and SMBs, they typically have a single provider, just as 
they typically do for electricity and water.

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Roland Dobbins <rdobbins@arbor.net>

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