[ih] Internet insecurity (BGP chapter)

[Brian E Carpenter]

On 03/06/2015 05:14, John Levine wrote:
>> A couple of us here were interviewed for this (along with many others), and
>> the articles seem to do a pretty good job of capturing (in a necessarily
>> restricted space) the essence of what happened. I'd be curious if anyone has
>> any comments/reactions to them.
> 
> These are some of the best tech articles in the general press I've
> seen in a long time.  He gets the issues right and explains them in
> an accessible way.

Yes. Although for me, the wake-up call wasn't the Morris worm. It was
some serious abuse of the physics/space science DECnet, probably by the
Chaos Computer Club, in 1986 or 1987. It was no surprise that the network
was vulnerable; the surprise was that people would attack it maliciously.

   Brian