[geeks] Ouch... I smell the internet going down soon.

Tue Apr 20 17:05:27 CDT 2004

On Tue, Apr 20, 2004 at 10:57:11PM +0100, Mike Meredith wrote:
> On Tue, 20 Apr 2004 14:11:29 -0400, Thomas Gallaway wrote:
> > This looks rather serious. Flaw in TCP....
> > 
> > http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=562&ncid=738&e=1&u=/ap/20040420/ap_on_hi_te/internet_threat
> 
> Some of the more level-headed people on NANOG think the danger is
> overstated (and that's putting it mildly).
...
> There's easier ways to attack a service.
> 
> It's also not new ... it's pretty much plainly stated in RFC793. If it
> was a major problem, wouldn't it have been used by now ?

"Death of Internet predicted; film at 11."


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