Why won't providers source-filter attacks? Simple.
Jay Ashworth
jra at baylink.com
Tue Feb 4 19:35:33 UTC 2014
----- Original Message -----
> From: "Paul Ferguson" <fergdawgster at mykolab.com>
> > (And yes, I know that in the first case, it urges the customer to
> > cough up the bucks, and in the second case, it's usually not a
> > revenue generator)
>
> It's a dichotomy that is... unexplainable for me personally.
Nope: it's easy to explain; you merely have to be a cynical bastard:
Attack traffic takes up bandwidth.
Providers sell bandwidth.
It *is in their commercial best interest (read: maximizing shareholder
value) *NOT* to filter out DOS, DDOS, and spam traffic until their hand is
forced -- it's actually their fiduciary duty not to.
*THIS* is the problem we have to fix.
Cheers,
-- jra
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