Counter DoS

Thu Mar 11 07:50:56 UTC 2004

Oh yes, lets not forget the fact that if enough sites have this 
'firewall' and one of them gets attacked by other sites using this 
firewall it'll create a nuclear fission sized chain reaction of looping 
Denial of Service Attacks that would probably bring most major backbone 
providers to their knees.

(Popcorn's in the microwave as I speak)

Greg

Jay Hennigan wrote:

>On Wed, 10 Mar 2004, Gregory Taylor wrote:
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>>After reading that article, if this product really is capable of
>>'counter striking DDoS attacks', my assumption is that it will fire
>>packets back at the nodes attacking it.  Doing such an attack would not
>>be neither feasible or legal.  You would only double the affect that the
>>initial attack caused to begin with, plus you would be attacking hacked
>>machines and not the culprit themselves, thus pouring gasoline all over
>>an already blazing inferno.
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>On the other hand, they could become immensely popular, reaching the
>critical mass when one of them detects what is interpreted as an attack
>from a network protected by another.  Grab the popcorn and watch as they
>all bludgeon each other to death.  :-)
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