Same ol crap. The video was about the Danish cartoons (I haven't seen it, just read about it), and some - actually most - in Pakistan continue to be short-sighted idiots who would rather worsen the problem by trying to suppress it, instead of letting it die on its own.
I don't think the Pakistani telecom would have the cajones to DoS youtube on purpose, so it was a mistake Faisal On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 10:39 AM, Richard M. Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks for the link. Very interesting. I wonder what the video was that > the PTA found to be so bad. YouTube removed the video because of a TOS > violation. > > > > Also a "ASIM KHAN" is listed as the author of the PDF file containing the > blocking order from the PTA. Does he work for the PTA or some ISP? Hmm….. > > > > Richard > > > > > > > > *From:* [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *On > Behalf Of *Ahmad Elkhatib > *Sent:* Monday, February 25, 2008 10:06 AM > *To:* Richard M. Smith > *Cc:* [email protected] > *Subject:* Re: [funsec] Cyberattack from the Pakistani government? > > > > a more in depth discussion about this here: > > > http://asert.arbornetworks.com/2008/02/internet-routing-insecuritypakistan-nukes-youtube/ > > -Ahmad > > On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 6:28 PM, Richard M. Smith < > [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9877614-7.html?tag=nefd.top > > > > February 24, 2008 12:17 PM PST > YouTube blames Pakistan network for 2-hour outage > > Posted by Greg > Sandoval<http://www.news.com/8300-10784_3-7.html?authorId=116&tag=author> > > [image: http://i.i.com.com/cnwk.1d/i/bto/20080224/youtube.jpg] > > *Updated, 9:40 p.m. to add YouTube's explanation of what caused outage.* > > YouTube suffered a two-hour long, system-wide outage on Sunday that the > company said was triggered by a network based in Pakistan. > > "For about two hours, traffic to YouTube was routed according to erroneous > Internet Protocols," said YouTube spokesperson Ricardo Reyes in a statement > "Many users around the world could not access our site. We have determined > that the source of these events was a network in Pakistan. We are > investigating and working with others in the Internet community to prevent > this from happening again." > > The BBC reported <http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7262071.stm> that > Pakistan's attempts to block access to YouTube may have inadvertently caused > the outage. Earlier in the day, Pakistan's shutoff access to YouTube inside > the country in response to the posting of cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad, > which have outraged many Muslims. > > … > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. > https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec > Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list. > > > > _______________________________________________ > Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. > https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec > Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list. >
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