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Re: Recent Attacks
From: Barney Wolff <barney () databus com>
Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2000 18:01 EST
My memory may be faulty, but as I recall it, this was not a prank at all. Jon Postel as IANA had official, legitimate authority over the root servers, and chose to demonstrate at that moment that he had practical authority as well. It was at the time an important point. I don't believe either Jon or Paul would have done anything to the root servers as a prank. Barney Wolff
From: "Philip J. Koenig" <pjklist () ekahuna com> Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2000 00:41:47 -0800 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". MattWell 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
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- RE: Recent Attacks Staggs, Michael (Feb 17)
- Re: Recent Attacks Barney Wolff (Feb 17)
- Re: Recent Attacks Don Kendrick (Feb 19)
- RE: Recent Attacks Staggs, Michael (Feb 19)
- Re: Recent Attacks Steven M. Bellovin (Feb 19)
- Re: Recent Attacks Transistor Sister (Feb 19)
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- Re: Recent Attacks Steven M. Bellovin (Feb 20)
- Re: Recent Attacks Ryan Russell (Feb 19)
- Re: Recent Attacks Paul D. Robertson (Feb 21)
- Re: Recent Attacks Ryan Russell (Feb 21)
- Re: Recent Attacks Crispin Cowan (Feb 21)
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