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Saturn IPs hijacked

From: Dan Langille <dan.langille_at_dvl-software.com>
Date: Mon, 16 Aug 1999 15:31:05 nzst
Message-id: <37b785f9.6e41.0@actrix.gen.nz>

Sources close to Saturn tell me their modems have recently undergone a quick
security clampdown. It appears that some [silly] users were modifying the IP
assigned to the modem. The result was that their traffic would be billed to
someone else.

A friend told me about FreeBSD reporting the arp message along the lines of
"someone else has my IP".

Apparently this hole has been fixed and the problem no longer exists.

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Dan Langille
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