[63785] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Wired mag article on spammers playing traceroute games with trojaned
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Michael.Dillon@radianz.com)
Fri Oct 10 07:11:29 2003
To: NANOG <nanog@merit.edu>
From: Michael.Dillon@radianz.com
Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2003 12:09:58 +0100
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
>With all due respect, we have a *problem*. End user machines on
>broadband connections are being misconfigured and/or compromised in
>frightening numbers. These machines are being used for everything
>from IRC flooder to spam engines, to DNS servers to massive DDoS
>infrastructure. If the ability of a teenager to launch a gb/s DDoS,
>or of someone DoSing mailservers off the internet with a trojan that
>contains a spam engine is not operational, perhaps it's just me
>that's confused.
Why don't you come to the next NANOG in Miami
in February and give a presentation on how people
are doing these things? The trouble with a mailing
list discussion is that it wanders all over the place.
But at NANOG you could focus on the network
operational issues of these networks of compromised
machines.
--Michael Dillon
