[IP] more on Tenet suggests limiting the Internet to approved users.
Begin forwarded message:
From: Rich Kulawiec <rsk@xxxxxxx>
Date: December 4, 2004 8:01:51 PM EST
To: "Trei, Peter" <ptrei@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: David Farber <dave@xxxxxxxxxx>, Richard Forno
<rforno@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [IP] Tenet suggests limiting the Internet to approved
users.
Please forgive me for following up my own note, but I though you would
all find this highly amusing. Or frustrating. Or both.
Act I: Dr. Farber runs a note (on the IP list) from Peter in which
George Tenet is quoted as saying:
"Access to networks like the World Wide Web might need to be limited to
those who can show they take security seriously, he said."
Act II: I, in my usual smartass fashion, follow up with this:
Well, that would rule out nearly every branch of federal, state
and local government in the US.
I'm all for it. When do we start?
Act III: This afternoon, I find this note on the NANOG mailing list:
From: Eric Brunner-Williams in Portland Maine <brunner@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: nanog@xxxxxxxxx
Subject: ddos from .mil, and from state.oh.us
Date: Sat, 04 Dec 2004 15:19:00 +0000
Oki all,
A month ago today Gadi was looking for a contact at US .mil, this
morning
I had the same need, as a node in the nipr.mil playpen was a major
player
in a 100+ node ddos directed at a web blog customer we host -- it had a
high rate of fire, accounting for over 20% of the total POST methods.
Email to the DO was a waste of time, but I did find a useful contact.
One of the nodes used in today's ddos against that customer blog
appeard in
a seperate multi-thousand ad insert (unpaid, naturally) attack on
another of
our customer blogs, accounting for about half of the total POST
methods.
If anyone has a useful contact in the state.oh.us playpen, please drop
me
a line. Email since 24/Nov is unanswered.
TiA,
Eric
I think this has all the requisite ingredients of a bad made-for-TV
movie.
---Rsk
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