At 05:12 PM 5/15/00 -0400, Joe Baptista wrote:
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>Date: Mon, 15 May 2000 13:07:11 -0400
>From: David Honig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: Multiple recipients of list <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: Re: (OT) Re: Sunset for sunrise
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>At 03:09 AM 5/15/00 -0400, !Dr. Joe Baptista wrote:
>>Well - simply put ICANN runs 13 root servers. All of those root servers
>>are very vulnerable to attack. DNS is by default a very insecure
>>protocol, easily hacked. Also, there has never been a DDOS against the 13
>>roots. If a DDOS is ever launched against the ICANN roots then I gurantee
>>you that alot of people will not be surfing for a few days.
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>The DNS protocol itself, not just the machines, is succeptible to attacks,
>there was that alter.net russian who got the FBI after him (he was in
>Canada at the time) after diddling with the DNS.
I love stuff like this.
"Alter.NET" ? Uh, no, that's uunet. Methinks he emans alternic.net.
"Russian" ? Uh, no, Kashpureff was born in New Jersey.
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