[AusNOG] Why BCP38 is important

[Dobbins, Roland]

On Nov 3, 2012, at 5:38 AM, Mark Smith wrote:

> Anonymous don't seem to be aware of BCP38, which would have mitigated a lot of their attack, however that also demonstrates why BCP38 is a must to implement.

Most attackers know very little if anything about TCP/IP . . . and yet, the servers/apps/services/infrastructure which have been deployed are so fragile, brittle, non-scalable, and anemic that their attacks succeed, anyways.

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