[49549] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Internet vulnerabilities
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Pete Ehlke)
Thu Jul 4 14:43:59 2002
Date: Thu, 4 Jul 2002 13:42:50 -0500
From: Pete Ehlke <pde+nanog@ehlke.net>
To: nanog@merit.edu
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On Thu, Jul 04, 2002 at 02:35:32PM -0400, Richard A Steenbergen wrote:
>
> But I'm sure there are probably more subtile ways to do it. As with all
> good vulnerabilities, it takes someone who is working on the inside to
> REALLY know how to muck things up... Fortunately the terrorists seem to be
> concerned with killing thousands of innocent people and scaring millions,
> not pissing off a few nerds and disrupting eBay's profit margin for a
> week. As much as we like to think we are important, I'd hardly put them in
> the same class.
>
Or, you could work behind the scene, get Michael Powell appointed to the
FCC, and make sure there are no brakes on the shortsightedness of
lawyers at the RIAA, the MPAA, and the US RBOCs.
Oh. Wait. That's been done. Nevermind.
