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RE: Homeland Security Alert System

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jeffrey Meltzer)
Fri Feb 21 16:24:18 2003

From: "Jeffrey Meltzer" <jeffrey@villageworld.com>
To: <nanog@nanog.org>
Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2003 16:27:11 -0500
In-Reply-To: <20030221172932.61802.qmail@web14914.mail.yahoo.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu




> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-nanog@merit.edu [mailto:owner-nanog@merit.edu] On 
> Behalf Of David Barak
>
> Well, an example could be "if threat level is yellow,
> permit traffic from $foreign_country_x, but if it goes
> to orange, deny all from $foreign_country_x, or
> perhaps log all from there.
> 

Um, you're not really serious, are you?  Are you worried about some cell
being activated by sending a packet through your servers?  I can't think
of one useful purpose to do something like that.

Jeff


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