Re: Recent Attacks

["Philip J. Koenig" <pjklist () ekahuna com>]

On 15 Feb 00, at 13:56, Matthew_S_Cramer () armstrong co boldly uttered: 

> > Paul Vixie as a prank once collaborated with Jon Postel
> > and hijacked some of the root servers, redirected some of
> > their answers (Internic's page?) to their own sites.  But
> > Postel was one of the most powerful people in the 'net and
> > Vixie is in charge of BIND, so they had a bit of an advantage
> > over your average script-kiddie. :-)
>
> Interesting - now the FBI would call that prank "cyber-terrorism".
>
>
> Matt



Well actually I believe at the time they were saying they
were doing an "experiment".

And I suppose there's a smidgen of truth to that. <g>

Of course, now that the corporate world has laid their
claim on the net as the engine of profit, such things
are definitely not taken as lightly as they were back
then.

Did a quick search and turned up a reference to this prank,
in the piece Vixie wrote in memorial to Jon.  You can check
it out at:

http://www.wired.com/news/print_version/culture/story/15679.html




Phil