[63491] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: CCO/cisco.com issues.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Richard Cox)
Mon Oct 6 20:09:40 2003
Date: Tue, 07 Oct 2003 01:05:22 +0100
From: Richard Cox <Richard@mandarin.com>
To: nanog@merit.edu
Reply-To: Richard@mandarin.com
In-Reply-To: <3F81FE8B.59124C1C@cox.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Mon, 06 Oct 2003 18:45:15 -0500
"Laurence F. Sheldon, Jr." <larrysheldon@cox.net> wrote:
| Now we have clear evidence that there are no less than three who
| understand the threat.
If you mean the threat from those who will attack and disable sites
because they don't like what people at those sites say or do, then I
assure you there are many who do understand that threat; some of whom
can see little difference in terms of effect between DDoS attacks run
by individuals, and the null-routing by a backbone network of IPs (or
ranges of IPs) for which they make BGP announcements.
Both are actions designed to interfere with individual freedoms;
both are serious operational issues, and need to be discussed here.
Or was it a different kind of threat that you were referring to, which
might have discouraged some who understand the real threat from talking
about it?
--
Richard Cox
