Yes, wonderful preso! My biggest take-away was the fact that the vast majority of the attendees did not understand the gravity of the demo. The same thing could be said about Dan's talk. It was over the heads of most attendees.
Marc
Yes, wonderful preso! My biggest take-away was the fact that the
vast majority of the attendees did not understand the gravity of the
demo.
Agreed on both counts: the presentation was great, and largely not
understood it seemed.
hehe
"new". heheMaybe something will change now' though, it was a great and
impressive presentation, hijacking the defcon network and tweaking
TTL to hide it.
Notably, Alex and Tony both mentioned that the BGP tricks were not new
during the presentation, and commented that it would essentially not be
surprising to anyone that groks routing at the level that most of the
folks on this list does.
What was new though according to their presentation (and it was new to
me certainly, but I'm still fairly green) was the AS Path prepending to
complete the circuit, and as you mentioned, the TTL magicks to hide
the hops.
I was suitably impressed at that.