[191806] 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 12:09:54 2016
X-Original-To: nanog@nanog.org
From: "Patrick W. Gilmore" <patrick@ianai.net>
In-Reply-To: <9FCA63C8-3011-4391-B4C6-055EB0B75792@arbor.net>
Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2016 12:05:58 -0400
To: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
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On Sep 27, 2016, at 11:49 AM, Roland Dobbins <rdobbins@arbor.net> wrote:
> =08On 27 Sep 2016, at 22:37, Patrick W. Gilmore wrote:
>> All the more reason to educate people TODAY on why having vulnerable =
devices is a Very Bad Idea.
>=20
> Yes, but how do they determine that a given device is vulnerable?
Easy: Can you ping it? It=E2=80=99s vulnerable.
:-)
Hey, I said we would have to educate them. I did not say how that would =
happen.
--=20
TTFN,
patrick
