[54762] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Scaled Back Cybersecurity
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Avi Freedman)
Wed Jan 15 12:34:42 2003
To: kurtis@kurtis.pp.se (Kurt Erik Lindqvist)
Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2003 12:31:15 -0500 (EST)
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <B57451DA-28A7-11D7-A222-000393AB1404@kurtis.pp.se> from "Kurt Erik Lindqvist" at Jan 15, 2003 05:37:59 PM
From: "Avi Freedman" <freedman@freedman.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
> > - Starting at the core, which is who the Feds buy the most IP from,
> > still makes life a lot simpler if and when we get the "big one"
> > in terms of cyber-attack.
>
> Is not the problem with this that few if any attacks originate in the
> core, and by the time the traffics start getting aggregated there it is
> already more or less to late?
>
> - kurtis -
I'm getting at attacks *on* the core as something we need to be
concerned about...
Thanks,
Avi
