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Re: Revealed: The Internet's Biggest Security Hole
From: <marcus.sachs () verizon com>
Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2008 21:52:19 -0400
Yes, wonderful preso! My biggest take-away was the fact that the vast majority of the attendees did not understand the gravity of the demo. The same thing could be said about Dan's talk. It was over the heads of most attendees. Marc ------Original Message------ From: Gadi Evron To: Sachs, Marcus H. (Marc) Cc: fsmendoza () gmail com Cc: nanog () merit edu Sent: Aug 27, 2008 21:42 Subject: Re: Revealed: The Internet's Biggest Security Hole On Wed, 27 Aug 2008 marcus.sachs () verizon com wrote:
Nothing will change. You think DNSSEC is hard? Try getting support for the deployment of S-BGP or soBGP. Without a trust anchor and lots of community support it will remain largely an academic interest area.
I guess it will just remain a "cool" presentation than, and boy was it cool. You were there, any special impressions? Gadi.
Marc ------Original Message------ From: Gadi Evron To: Frank Cc: NANOG list Sent: Aug 27, 2008 20:54 Subject: Re: Revealed: The Internet's Biggest Security Hole hehe "new". hehe Maybe something will change now' though, it was a great and impressive presentation, hijacking the defcon network and tweaking TTL to hide it. On Thu, 28 Aug 2008, Frank wrote:http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2008/08/revealed-the-in.html Two security researchers have demonstrated a new technique to stealthily intercept internet traffic on a scale previously presumed to be unavailable to anyone outside of intelligence agencies like the National Security Agency. The tactic exploits the internet routing protocol BGP (Border Gateway Protocol) to let an attacker surreptitiously monitor unencrypted internet traffic anywhere in the world, and even modify it before it reaches its destination. The demonstration is only the latest attack to highlight fundamental security weaknesses in some of the internet's
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Current thread:
- Revealed: The Internet's Biggest Security Hole Frank (Aug 27)
- Re: Revealed: The Internet's Biggest Security Hole Gadi Evron (Aug 27)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- Re: Revealed: The Internet's Biggest Security Hole marcus.sachs (Aug 27)
- Re: Revealed: The Internet's Biggest Security Hole Gadi Evron (Aug 27)
- Re: Revealed: The Internet's Biggest Security Hole marcus.sachs (Aug 27)
- Re: Revealed: The Internet's Biggest Security Hole Jason Ross (Aug 27)
- Re: Revealed: The Internet's Biggest Security Hole marcus.sachs (Aug 27)
- RE: Revealed: The Internet's Biggest Security Hole Allen Bass (Aug 27)
- Re: Revealed: The Internet's Biggest Security Hole Hank Nussbacher (Aug 27)
- Re: Revealed: The Internet's Biggest Security Hole Joel Jaeggli (Aug 28)