Re: Cyberattack from the Pakistani government?

[FS <bastiji () gmail com>]

Same ol crap. The video was about the Danish cartoons (I haven't seen it,
just read about it), and some - actually most - in Pakistan continue to be
short-sighted idiots who would rather worsen the problem by trying to
suppress it, instead of letting it die on its own.

I don't think the Pakistani telecom would have the cajones to DoS youtube on
purpose, so it was a mistake

Faisal

On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 10:39 AM, Richard M. Smith <rms () computerbytesman com>
wrote:

>  Thanks for the link.  Very interesting.  I wonder what the video was that
> the PTA found to be so bad.  YouTube removed the video because of a TOS
> violation.
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> Also a "ASIM KHAN" is listed as the author of the PDF file containing the
> blocking order from the PTA.  Does he work for the PTA or some ISP?  Hmm…..
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> *From:* ahmad.elkhatib () gmail com [mailto:ahmad.elkhatib () gmail com] *On
> Behalf Of *Ahmad Elkhatib
> *Sent:* Monday, February 25, 2008 10:06 AM
> *To:* Richard M. Smith
> *Cc:* funsec () linuxbox org
> *Subject:* Re: [funsec] Cyberattack from the Pakistani government?
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> a more in depth discussion about this here:
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> http://asert.arbornetworks.com/2008/02/internet-routing-insecuritypakistan-nukes-youtube/
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> -Ahmad
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> On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 6:28 PM, Richard M. Smith <
> rms () computerbytesman com> wrote:
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> http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9877614-7.html?tag=nefd.top
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> February 24, 2008 12:17 PM PST
> YouTube blames Pakistan network for 2-hour outage
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> Posted by Greg Sandoval<http://www.news.com/8300-10784_3-7.html?authorId=116&tag=author>
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> [image: http://i.i.com.com/cnwk.1d/i/bto/20080224/youtube.jpg]
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> *Updated, 9:40 p.m. to add YouTube's explanation of what caused outage.*
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> YouTube suffered a two-hour long, system-wide outage on Sunday that the
> company said was triggered by a network based in Pakistan.
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> "For about two hours, traffic to YouTube was routed according to erroneous
> Internet Protocols," said YouTube spokesperson Ricardo Reyes in a statement
> "Many users around the world could not access our site. We have determined
> that the source of these events was a network in Pakistan. We are
> investigating and working with others in the Internet community to prevent
> this from happening again."
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> The BBC reported <http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7262071.stm> that
> Pakistan's attempts to block access to YouTube may have inadvertently caused
> the outage. Earlier in the day, Pakistan's shutoff access to YouTube inside
> the country in response to the posting of cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad,
> which have outraged many Muslims.
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