Internet slows down after DNS attack on Spamhaus

[Sadiq Saif]

On Thu, Mar 28, 2013, at 13:21, Thomas Milne wrote:
> Looks like this may have been overblown somewhat, for the usual reason:
> greed.
> 
> http://gizmodo.com/5992652/that-internet-war-apocalypse-is-a-lie
> 
> 
> On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 8:59 AM, Thomas Milne
> <thomas.bruce.milne-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org>wrote:
> 
> > One curious line in this story says that the attack was partly enabled by
> > "open DNS", which it says are "known to be insecure".
> >
> > Thoughts?
> >
> > Internet slows down after DNS attack on Spamhaus
> >
> > http://gu.com/p/3emqz
> >
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> Thomas Milne

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