[73089] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: BGP-based blackholing/hijacking patented in Australia?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Neil J. McRae)
Thu Aug 12 09:47:48 2004
From: "Neil J. McRae" <neil@DOMINO.ORG>
To: "'Neil J. McRae'" <neil@DOMINO.ORG>,
"'Niels Bakker'" <niels=nanog@bakker.net>, <nanog@merit.edu>
Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2004 14:47:13 +0100
In-Reply-To: <20040812120524.7BF0E3995B@equinox.DOMINO.ORG>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
http://www.linx.net/papers/blocking/Blackhole%20Policy%20Announcement%20Serv
ice%20-%20LINX%20position%20paper%20FINAL.pdf
Is the paper for those who are interested. Malcolm Hutty <malcolm@linx.net>
did a lot of the good work on this paper.
Regards,
Neil.
I Wrote:
> Niels,
> The UK government have looked at this as a possibility to use
> this non-technology as away for the banks to advise ISP's
> about false bank logon schemes "phishing sites".
>
> The UK industry lead by the members of the London Internet
> Exchange responded with a paper outlining how this
> non-solution was fatally flawed and would actually not
> resolve this problem at all, and actually give a false sense
> of security. The UK government has since agreed with the
> industry and is working on other possible solutions, like the
> banks solving their own problem with token like technologies
> etc, rather than let us poor operators solve their problems for them.
>
> I hope this "non-technology" gets the patent it deserves!
>
> Regards,
> Neil.
>
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