[70478] in North American Network Operators' Group
Flash crowds and DOS on POTS
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sean Donelan)
Sun May 16 22:54:24 2004
Date: Sun, 16 May 2004 22:53:49 -0400 (EDT)
From: Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com>
To: nanog@merit.edu
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
All networks are vulnerable to Denial of Service attacks and flash
crowds. Broadcasting & Cable investigates the problems with the
telephone and SMS voting with the Fox television show American
Idol.
http://www.broadcastingcable.com/article/CA417981
The difference is when people get a "busy" signal on the phone
network, they don't think phone network is collapsing.
