-----Original Message----- From: wherrin@gmail.com On Behalf Of William Herrin Sent: Friday, October 01, 2010 2:50 PM To: George Bonser Cc: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: AS11296 -- Hijacked?
On Fri, Oct 1, 2010 at 5:31 PM, George Bonser wrote:
Quite possible if one is using it to distribute a virus. RE: Spanair flight JK-5022
http://www.monstersandcritics.com/news/europe/news/article_1578877.php/
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Hi George,
That's been debunked.
Good. Ok, now shall we move on to Stuxnet which now seems to be infiltrating China. We don't know yet if that will cause any problems or not. The idea that there are fairly significant amounts of address space that could be used for practically anything at any time is probably a bigger issue in 2010 than it was in 1995 simply because we have more infrastructure that is either directly or indirectly exposed to it. Malware distributed on the internet can find its way onto a laptop and from there a thumb drive and from there to a computer used for medical purposes or at a chemical plant is more plausible of a scenario these days. Why make it EASY to distribute such things? Why do you seem to be defending the idea that it is somehow good to have lots of unaccounted for address space out there? Do you use it for something? G