Arbor Networks DoS defense product
Dan Hollis
goemon at anime.net
Wed May 15 21:10:54 UTC 2002
On Wed, 15 May 2002, Rob Thomas wrote:
> ] scanning would quickly become self defeating as attackers would only
> ] manage to cut themselves off from the net.
> To some degree, yes. Most of the miscreants are clueful enough not to
> scan from their home machines.
I disagree. They have to start somewhere. Most miscreants first attack
offshore hosts, then use those to attack domestic victims.
> The end result is a lot of hacked hosts are black holed.
And this is a bad thing?
> On one hand you could say "serves 'em right for being hacked!" On the
> other hand, you could wonder why it is that the non-geek broadband users
> must be system, network, and firewall administrators.
They don't. This is purely a response to rogue networks/blackhats and
apathetic/irresponsible/toothless NOCs.
-Dan
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