[23503] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: more Internic nightmare
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jay R. Ashworth)
Tue Mar 23 21:00:35 1999
Date: Tue, 23 Mar 1999 20:46:04 -0500
From: "Jay R. Ashworth" <jra@scfn.thpl.lib.fl.us>
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.10.9903231655140.21648-100000@lawgiver.megacity.org>; from Derek Balling <dredd@megacity.org> on Tue, Mar 23, 1999 at 04:59:45PM -0800
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Tue, Mar 23, 1999 at 04:59:45PM -0800, Derek Balling wrote:
> Unless you're planning on enforcing passwords for contacts then I don't
> think it'd take all that much to SIMULATE a client, choosing random people
> from the whois database, and blaming other people for your whois queries.
> An even more intelligent system would use the tech contact for the LAST
> result as the requestor for the current one so that there would be no
> visible pattern.
>
> The source code for the client is going to be out there, so people will
> figure out how it works, reverse engineer a version that uses a forged,
> but existing, tech contact, and go on with their day.
Can we say "PGP"? C'mon, folks; the engineering solutions to these
problems are _trivial_. What is _not_ trivial is working the political
process to bring pressure to bear on Netsol to make them _possible_.
Cheers,
-- jra
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