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Re: NANOG meeting subject of attack? Hmmmm....

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Shawn McMahon)
Wed Feb 9 10:24:40 2000

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Or cooperate with each other, find the son of a bitch who started it, and 
prosecute him in each and every state the packets passed through that has 
computer intrusion laws, so that even if he's found not guilty or given 
token sentences, he gets that way one trial at a time in 50 states.

Lather, rinse, repeat.  Should be good for 15 to 25 years of trials.  :-)


At 08:02 PM 2/8/2000 -0700, you wrote:

>not only that, it seems that the DOS is so bad that even UUNet is having to
>shut down peering points around the West Coast with most of their peers. I
>guess the only way to 'protect' against something this big would be to follow
>Pauls RFC and/or have big, fat pipes sitting idle.



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