Now that this topic has been brought up, I have a question to the list in general. I have suggested to Susan Harris (who does a FANTASTIC job of putting the NANOG meeting agenda together) that it might be interesting to have a panel session at the Albuqureque NANOG consisting of several folks (including popular trade press journalists) to discuss the "damage factor" in disinformation. I have personally been appalled at the lack of accuracy in the more recent reports of service provider outages that have been erroneously reported as being due to "hacker attacks" or DoS attacks. This has led to excessive fear-mongering & FUD, and tends to reduce the confidence in the service provider community, and in my humble opinion, needs to be addressed. What does the list, in general, think about this proposal? Thanks, - paul At 09:33 PM 04/28/2000 -0400, Paul Ferguson wrote:
At 05:36 PM 04/28/2000 -0700, Roland Dobbins wrote:
There was no implication of 'dirty little secrets' intended; on the contrary, Cisco have been great to deal with on issues of this type, and very prompt to disseminate security-related information.
I have no problem with Cisco, quite the opposite. What I have a problem with is people who point the finger and shout "J'accuse!" from the sidelines.
You folks at Cisco are extremely forthcoming, and your efforts in this sphere are much appreciated.
Thank you.
- paul