On 1/10/14 1:06 PM, Paul wrote:
On Fri, Jan 10, 2014 at 2:52 PM, Chris Albertson
<[email protected]>wrote:

It's not a big deal.  Even if one pool NTP server is down

On Fri, Jan 10, 2014 at 4:32 AM, Jim Lux <[email protected]> wrote:


The article talks about how the victim site can easily filter out the
messages from the NTP server, but does not seem to discuss the "societal"
impact of potentially screwing up a public service (the NTP server)


It's an amplification attack.  It's about taking down citi.com or
whitehouse.gov -- not taking down pool.ntp.org (or any part of it).

Yes..
but how long before someone thinks of putting the amplifier after a botnet, rather than driving it directly.

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