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From: Michael Tench (geekruleryahoo.com)
Date: Mon Jul 23 2001 - 12:26:41 CDT

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    Actually I recently wrote a paper on how a cracker can
    effectively bring the net down. Perhaps later I will
    post the entire thing on my website. Here is the brief
    version:

    1) The Internet has a limited number of root name
    servers.
    2) An application can easilly be created to perform a
    DOS attack on these root servers.

    Considering that most of the traffic on the net
    requires DNS, this would eefectively bring the
    Internet down to it's knees. This would be nearly
    impossible to stop.

    my .04
    Ad Astrada,
    Michael Tench

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