On Sun, 27 Sep 1998, Brett Glass wrote: > Today, it's rare to find a modem that responds to the attack unless there > happens to be a long pause in the data stream after the "+++". ... > Therefore, this DoS attack isn't a big deal. It's easily preventable, > rarely effective, and relatively harmless (all you have to do, if it hits, > is redial). > > --Brett Glass > I have tested this out here locally, as well as with the help from a few other people onlin and it seems that 6 of 9 modems have been affected. I would hardly call that 'rarely effective', relatively harmless yes, but it seems to be a large percentage. I am interested to see more results as too how wide spread this is. (all tests were done using ping -p 2b2b2b415448300d host ) kill9
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