> I guess I'm just late to party on realizing this. Why doesn't this > happen more often? I'd think every virus out there would be doing this, > if not to inject ads or whatever, but to just silently wait for anybody > to download any executable content and inject itself into the stream.
One reason why this doesn't happen more often may be because it doesn't scale well. The DNS poisoning attack presented last year targets big DNS servers with millions of request a day, while the attacker in this case might need to physically move to many different (small) networks if he needs more traffic. A. _______________________________________________ p2p-hackers mailing list p2p-hackers@lists.zooko.com http://lists.zooko.com/mailman/listinfo/p2p-hackers
