[96771] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Slate Podcast on Estonian DOS atatck
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Marshall Eubanks)
Thu May 24 07:22:10 2007
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SOC.4.61.0705240408400.6787@paixhost.pch.net>
Cc: Alexander Harrowell <a.harrowell@gmail.com>,
"ge@linuxbox.org" <ge@linuxbox.org>, Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com>,
nanog@merit.edu
From: Marshall Eubanks <tme@multicasttech.com>
Date: Thu, 24 May 2007 07:21:13 -0400
To: Bill Woodcock <woody@pch.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On May 24, 2007, at 7:09 AM, Bill Woodcock wrote:
>
> On Thu, 24 May 2007, Alexander Harrowell wrote:
>> a) it wasn't really that serious, b) it was serious
>> but mitigation was successful, or c) being well-mitigated (BCP38 and
>> the like) from the word go, its seriousness or otherwise wasn't
>> obvious?
>
> Definitely (b). The EE-CERT was remarkably well-prepared and
> effective,
> and their counterparts around the world cooperated dilligently and
> professionally. It was a very large attack.
>
> -Bill
>
People might be interested in a military perspective on this :
http://globalguerrillas.typepad.com/globalguerrillas/2007/05/
an_internet_ebo.html
and a possible response
http://globalguerrillas.typepad.com/globalguerrillas/2007/05/
journal_a_new_m.html
Regards
Marshall
