DNS issues various

Thu Oct 24 22:50:57 UTC 2002

At 02:44 PM 10/24/2002, Barry Shein wrote:
>That sounds to me more like considering the use of sonic repellants
>rather than rat poison to keep the vermin out of the relays and
>providing latex gloves for removing the dead rats, rather than
>designing out the relays the rodents get into entirely.

Given time, rats can chew through concrete. They are smart enough to trip 
traps before eating the cheese, or to lick the cheese off triggers rather 
than pulling or chewing, so as not to cross the alarm threshold. They breed 
faster than you can keep up with them, which not only ensures a generous 
supply of them but also ensures that they adapt to new environments 
quickly. They have been known to become resistant to poisons that killed 
rats a few years before.

In short, your rats versus script kiddies analogy is perfect, but I think 
you are forgetting that we still have rats everywhere.

~Ben
(who speaks for himself alone here)
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