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Re: WP: Attack On Internet Called Largest Ever

  • From: Richard A Steenbergen
  • Date: Tue Oct 22 19:14:23 2002

On Tue, Oct 22, 2002 at 05:15:21PM -0400, Sean Donelan wrote:
> 
> http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A828-2002Oct22.html
> 
> The heart of the Internet sustained its largest and most sophisticated
> attack ever, starting late Monday, according to officials at key online
> backbone organizations.

Looked like a pretty piddly and unintelligent smurf/ping flood combo to 
me. The state of the so-called "experts" saddens me more with each passing 
day.

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Richard A Steenbergen <ras@e-gerbil.net>       http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras
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