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Re: DOS attack from PANAMSAT

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu)
Sun Jul 7 16:41:34 2002

To: Clayton Fiske <clay@bloomcounty.org>
Cc: NANOG <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 07 Jul 2002 13:27:52 PDT."
             <20020707132752.E92656@bloomcounty.org> 
From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Date: Sun, 07 Jul 2002 16:40:50 -0400
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu


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On Sun, 07 Jul 2002 13:27:52 PDT, Clayton Fiske <clay@bloomcounty.org>  said:

> Sure, but the idea that the kids doing the harvesting a) know how to
> do such a thing and b) care if the compromised machine is traced is

If the perpetrator actually understood the exploit, they'd not be called
a 'script kiddie'.
-- 
				Valdis Kletnieks
				Computer Systems Senior Engineer
				Virginia Tech


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