[AusNOG] Interesting - How a Router's Missed Range Check Nearly Crashed the Internet

[Matthew Moyle-Croft]

On 23/02/2009, at 10:17 AM, Ben wrote:

> What’s interesting to me is that large vendors such as Cisco (USA),  
> A-L (France) and Huawei (China) have the opportunity to put all  
> sorts of bug/features into the code of their platforms.

If you put it in then the enemy is just as likely to be able to  
reverse engineer it and use it against you anyway.   Where enemy may  
not be a sovereign nation but a criminal group looking for money.

MMC
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