If....smurf is a terrorist tool my friend..... Dave Van Allen wrote:
-----Original Message----- From: Randy Bush [mailto:randy@psg.com] Sent: Thursday, April 09, 1998 11:51 PM To: Dalvenjah FoxFire Cc: nanog@merit.org Subject: Re: AS8584 taking over the internet
IOW, if some terrorist group manages to get set up where they can announce BGP, they can toy essentially with whatever they like, until people/their upstream gets a clue and installs filters.
-before we get too hysterical, it may be worth noting that to date the -problems have been caused by lack of clue, not lack of ethics, morals, -or empathy. not that this is reason less for caution, but it might -guide our reaction towards the actual, as opposed to imagined, problems.
-randy
Nevertheless, he is right.
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