> effectively bring the internet to its knees. > I have the power to do it > from work -- not that I'd actually do it (can you imagine the > lawsuits?), but it wouldn't be that difficult. all it'd take is to find > the subnets a few of the most core routers are on, and advertize that as > a push route through BGP. boom, you've just taken down your ISP.
Yes but can that take down a large swath of the Internet? I have no doubt DoS attacks exist against single nodes but that's not the same. The 'Net was designed to survive a nuclear attack. It would be most ironic if any temp-2-hire sysadmin at your firm could do what a nuclear war could not. cs -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
