[22588] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Huge smurf attack
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dalvenjah FoxFire)
Tue Jan 12 15:03:56 1999
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1999 09:48:34 -0800
From: Dalvenjah FoxFire <dalvenjah@DAL.NET>
To: Michael Shields <shields@msrl.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <87hftwju0b.fsf@mulligatwani.msrl.com>; from Michael Shields on Tue, Jan 12, 1999 at 05:12:22PM +0000
On Tue, Jan 12, 1999 at 05:12:22PM +0000, Michael Shields put this into my mailbox:
> In article <19990111101351.04195@dragonlair.dal.net>,
> Dalvenjah FoxFire <dalvenjah@DAL.NET> wrote:
> > Much as I hate to say it, this seems to be one area where industry
> > self-regulation has utterly failed. I don't know what would be a better
> > solution; I hate to suggest government regulation. But I'm at a loss here.
>
> Civil liability?
Possibly. I don't know of anyone who's tried suing over a smurf attack.
If I could afford the lawyer and the court time I'd do it myself.
All we really need is one or two good cases to establish some case law;
then the rest of us can have some legal precedent to point to and say
"If you don't fix your networks, you're screwed."
-dalvenjah
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