Re: Controversial paper - Good response article on ZDNet

From: Paul Rubin (//phr.cx_at_NOSPAM.invalid)
Date: 10/15/03 

Date: 15 Oct 2003 10:14:35 -0700

Mack <macckone@a_nospamjunk123_ol.com> writes:
> >It's happened. Netgear's routers recently did a systematic DoS on a
> >Universities time servers and network. It was a flaw.
>
> Now that is nasty didn't hear about that one. I am sure Netgear
> is getting sued over that one.

It was an inadvertent but stupid software bug, not exactly a security
error since there was no deliberate exploit of anything. Netgear and
the university have been working together amicably to deal with the
resulting headaches.