Re: Level3 routing issues?

[Tony Kapela <xam () chalupa wi2600 org>]

On 26 Jan 2003, Michael Lamoureux wrote:

>  "dave" == Dave Stewart <dbs () dbscom com> writes:
>
> dave> I've seen various references to this worm firing off and
> dave> saturating networks worldwide within 1 minute... if *that* isn't
> dave> scary, I don't know what is.  It shows that someone, with the
> dave> right tools and enough vulnerable servers can take out a good
> dave> portion of the Internet in seconds.  And how can we predict
> dave> *every* possible issue and block it?
>
> Exactly!!  This is why the Right Answer (TM) is to get end-users to
> secure their systems and networks so that an attacker can't get a
> critical mass of hosts in 1 minute (or even 1 month).  You can only do

Maybe the underlying theme is that, for whatever reasons (market
preassures, business idiocy?), we find ourselves on a network that's
largely a collection of monoculture hosts -- win32 on x86. 

--Tk