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Re: Cyberattack from the Pakistani government?
From: "Paul Ferguson" <fergdawg () netzero net>
Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2008 23:20:49 GMT
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 - -- <rMslade () shaw ca> wrote:
So a government order blocking an entire Web site isn't a cyberattack?No. It is censorship, not a "cyber attack".No, couldn't be censorship, because, in this case, the net didn't route around it, but
directly to it ...
(Equally damaging, of course ...)
Well, there are two issues here, which unfortunately "overlapped" for a brief period yesterday due to misconfiguration and subsequent route leakage -- one intentional and other unintentional. They just happened to share the same space briefly. :-) - - ferg -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP Desktop 9.6.3 (Build 3017) wj8DBQFHw01Lq1pz9mNUZTMRAvWOAJ9xMTzRixRHAYvSbgej98+sp4yUGwCgx8vo 9ZhtYZUL7y5IkGUx5u7jQ5o= =/PHt -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- "Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson Engineering Architecture for the Internet fergdawg(at)netzero.net ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/ _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
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- Re: Cyberattack from the Pakistani government?, (continued)
- Re: Cyberattack from the Pakistani government? Richard M. Smith (Feb 25)
- Re: Cyberattack from the Pakistani government? Florian Weimer (Feb 25)
- Re: Cyberattack from the Pakistani government? Danny McPherson (Mar 13)
- Re: Cyberattack from the Pakistani government? Richard M. Smith (Feb 25)
- Re: Cyberattack from the Pakistani government? Paul Ferguson (Feb 25)
- Re: Cyberattack from the Pakistani government? Nick FitzGerald (Feb 25)
- Re: Cyberattack from the Pakistani government? Drsolly (Feb 25)
- Re: Cyberattack from the Pakistani government? Rob, grandpa of Ryan, Trevor, Devon & Hannah (Feb 25)
- Re: Cyberattack from the Pakistani government? Nick FitzGerald (Feb 25)
- Re: Cyberattack from the Pakistani government? Rob, grandpa of Ryan, Trevor, Devon & Hannah (Feb 26)
- Re: Cyberattack from the Pakistani government? Nick FitzGerald (Feb 25)