"portscans" (was Re: Arbor Networks DoS defense product)

Scott Francis darkuncle at darkuncle.net
Sun May 19 07:57:52 UTC 2002


On Sun, May 19, 2002 at 12:12:01AM -0700, goemon at anime.net said:
[snip]
> And what the critics keep missing is that it will take several landmine 
> hits across the internet to invoke a blackhole. Just scanning a few 
> individual hosts or /24s won't do it.
> 
> There are three aims of the landmine project:
> 
> 1) early warning
> 2) defensive response
> 3) deterrence
> 
> I realize such a project won't be absolutely, positively perfect in every 
> aspect, and it won't satisfy 100% of the people 100% of the time. But 
> that's hardly an excuse to not do it. IMO the positives outweigh the 
> negatives by far.

This is what I have been (unsuccessfully) attempting to state. I apparently
need more practice in being coherent. :)
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