[73129] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: BGP-based blackholing/hijacking patented in Australia?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Neil J. McRae)
Fri Aug 13 08:19:35 2004
From: "Neil J. McRae" <neil@DOMINO.ORG>
To: "'Bevan Slattery'" <bevan@pipenetworks.com>,
"'Michel Py'" <michel@arneill-py.sacramento.ca.us>,
"'Andre Oppermann'" <nanog-list@nrg4u.com>
Cc: <nanog@merit.edu>
Date: Fri, 13 Aug 2004 13:18:57 +0100
In-Reply-To: <6.1.2.0.0.20040813134822.02b44410@mail.pipenetworks.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
I like point 13 where you highlight how the system is doesn't
work. In anycase I doubt that this patent is any more valid
outside of the blackholing part and I hope this gets stuck
in some lengthy patent legal argument preventing anyone
from using it! :-) Why not ask the banks to be
responsible net users and protect their customers properly
with Token based authentication. Banks in Switzerland have
done this successfully.
Regards,
Neil.
> Just to ease peoples concerns, the patent has nothing to do
> with blackholing. A brief description of the way it works
> can be found here:
>
> http://www.scamslam.com/ScamSlam/whatis.shtml
>
> We have not disclosed the site address to the "public" at
> this stage, the text of the site is only draft form for the
> purposes of editing and needs to be "polished". Perhaps the
> article wasn't as articulate in conveying this, but I'm sure
> you appreciate journalists sometimes don't get it right :)
>
