Secret Geek A-Team Hacks Back, Defends Worldwide Web →
This article, and the events therein, date back to 2008. Still, it’s a very good read and highly educational, as well pretty friggin’ scary, to consider how close we were at one point to a complete digital meltdown.
This is way more effective than blowing up root servers with missiles. ;x
Related to the article is this link: How to Plug the Hole in the Internet, which gives an overview of the vulnerability and what our band-aid fix was for it. Interesting stuff.
