New Denial of Service Attack on Panix

Tue Sep 17 15:11:13 UTC 1996

On Sep 17, 10:48am, David Miller wrote:
> Subject: RE: New Denial of Service Attack on Panix
> On Mon, 16 Sep 1996, Jim Browning wrote:
>
> > Rather than "educate the enemy" via public discussion, I think it would be
> > best if those capable of contributing to solutions to this problem:
> >
> > 1.   Collaborated in private
> > 2.   Developed a consensus "I-D"
> >
> > If a solution is developed whose effectiveness is not weakened by making
> > the details public, it can be published.  If that is not the case, the
> > solution can be made available in private to "known entities".
> >
> > Make sense?
>
> No.
>
> There's no way to tell all the good guys from all the bad guys.
> If one "bad-guy" get's on the "good guy" listthen you've just lost all
> adavantage of having the "private" discussion.  And in the meantime
> you've shut out all the guys who are "good" but somehow not on the "good
> guy" list.
>
>-- End of excerpt from David Miller

Agreed. CERT has followed this theory with poor results.

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