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The somewhat illegal fix for NTP attacks
- Subject: The somewhat illegal fix for NTP attacks
- From: landonstewart at gmail.com (Landon)
- Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2014 14:13:24 -0800
- In-reply-to: <CAPkb-7AdMQ=Kpy5_BDYOfQF++B0h693a0Jp5YjZ-DXaGtc9wyQ@mail.gmail.com>
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On 21 February 2014 14:08, Baldur Norddahl <baldur.norddahl at gmail.com>wrote:
> Hi
>
> The following would probably be illegal so do not actually do this. But
> what if... there are just 4 billion IPv4 addresses. Scanning that
> address-space for open NTP is trivially done in a few hours. Abusing these
> servers for reflection attack is as trivial, hence the problem. How can we
> get the responsible parties to fix their NTP servers?
>
> Answer: DDoS them. With their own service.
>
/me gets some popcorn and waits for the show.
--
Landon Stewart <LandonStewart at Gmail.com>