[4535] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: A modest proposal
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sean Donelan)
Tue Sep 17 22:12:08 1996
Date: Tue, 17 Sep 1996 21:01:12 -0500 (CDT)
From: Sean Donelan <SEAN@SDG.DRA.COM>
To: nanog@merit.edu
>Currently, anyone can program their computer to repeatedly dial a
>given business phone line and fill up a company's inbound phone lines,
>making a denial of service attack. Why isn't the phone system about
>to die because of it?
Actually the phone system does periodically die from this. Just ask
the White House switchboard operators about it.
--
Sean Donelan, Data Research Associates, Inc, St. Louis, MO
Affiliation given for identification not representation
