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1. Comment - Did a single security engineer avert a DNS disaster?

   (Aug 8, 2008 - 7:21 PM)

   Hmm,
   
   "the entire Internet could have been rendered mostly inoperative."
   
   A bit sensationalist, don't you think? The idea that this exploit could render the net "mostly inoperative" is a bit overblown. An attack might take out a particular ISP's ability to serve legitimate google pages or some such thing, but wholesale network outage seems a bit far-fetched.
   
   Anyway, wouldn't script-kiddies want to keep the internet mostly working so they can brag about their mayhem in rerouting *.yahoo.com requests to slavic midget-porn sites? And serious financially motivated fraudsters would want to stay under the radar enough to skim Schwab account info without being noticed. Both of those motivations require a mostly working internet.