This is just a stream of consciousness, but I perceive that most of the
"vulnerabilities" (BGP, SNMP, etc) are mostly knee-jerk reactions to what is
reported to vendors by trophy hunters out there looking for easy kills. For
sure, they are real and true, and need to be disclosed by the relevant
I agree - this would not be a defect that would require backbone maintenance
- it's a defect that would affect edge VOIP devices, hardly core
infrastructure.
Of course, it could be that there is another more serious defect out there
that major providers have been pre-warned about and are deploy
Interesting, it does respond, albiet sporadically.. It contains the
usual stuff... a trojan..
It looks like a variant of Psyme.. *sigh*
-colin.
On 18/03/2004, at 4:33 PM, william(at)elan.net wrote:
Me thinks somebody has found a trapdoor in nanog mailsetup and is in
general out to get us
Because, in the the grand scale scheme of things, it's really not that
important.
No one died because of it, the normal, everyday events of the world
went on,
unaffected by a Level 3 outage...
Might be nice to know what happened, but my life will certainly not be
less interesting by not having
