[59783] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Working vulnerability? (Cisco exploit)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Paul Vixie)
Sat Jul 19 10:49:28 2003
To: nanog@merit.edu
From: Paul Vixie <vixie@vix.com>
Date: 19 Jul 2003 14:48:16 +0000
In-Reply-To: <D439F074-B932-11D7-AF2D-000393A6BE8C@idnet.net.uk>
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> >> ... but people are attacking seemingly random IPs, including ones in a
> >> new ARIN block that have not yet been assigned/used for anything.
> >> What do they think they're attacking?
> >
> > Civilization.
>
> You call this civilisation?
Since I'm just now rereading e. e. "doc" smith's "Lensman" series, I took
the answer in that context, and I completely agree. Not so much that it's
what "we" are, that it's what "they" are fighting against.
But I moralize.
--
Paul Vixie
