[192254] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Death of the Internet, Film at 11
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ronald F. Guilmette)
Sun Oct 23 19:34:33 2016
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From: "Ronald F. Guilmette" <rfg@tristatelogic.com>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <874m43qsk2.fsf@mid.deneb.enyo.de>
Date: Sun, 23 Oct 2016 16:34:28 -0700
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In message <874m43qsk2.fsf@mid.deneb.enyo.de>,
Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de> wrote:
>Not that the underlying threat will go away until we find a way to
>clean up almost all of the compromised devices (and without breaking
>the Internet along the way, forever).
The Internet *is* already broken.
After the attack on Krebs, the terabit+ attack on OVH, and the
events of Friday, if there are still some people who fail to grasp
this fundamental point, then it can only be because some folks
have become really adept at living in denial.
Regards,
rfg
