[70700] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: handling ddos attacks
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu)
Fri May 21 15:37:44 2004
To: nanog@mandarin.com
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 21 May 2004 19:19:46 -0000."
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From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Date: Fri, 21 May 2004 15:36:59 -0400
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On Fri, 21 May 2004 19:19:46 -0000, Richard Cox <richard@mandarin.com> said:
> While there are obvious difficulties with Russian (and neighbouring
> country) ISPs, for the rest of Europe any such misconduct gets fast
> action - as witness the speed with which Law Enforcement moved over
> the Sasser worm - the author of which is already in custody.
*alledged* author.
I mention this mostly because there's been at one case where they've arrested
somebody for creating a minor tweaked variant, and gotten the press pointed at
that rather than the fact that they never did (to my knowledge) find the guy
who did the bulk of the work....
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