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:

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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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