Counter DoS

Thu Mar 11 09:52:00 UTC 2004

At 09:43 AM 11-03-04 +0000, Brandon Butterworth wrote:

> > The Symbiot whitepaper on their service describes a process with a
> > little more imagination
>
>Like hooking it up to DARPA Grand Challenge winners?
>
>http://abcnews.go.com/sections/SciTech/WorldNewsTonight/robot_race_darpa_040310-1.html

They recently revised the rules downward:
http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,62608,00.html?tw=wn_tophead_3

> > I applaud the idea of a outsourced department that will manage the
> > denial of service, and "hordes of script kiddie"
>
>trouble with sending a droid round to kick ass is you've
>just made Skynet V0.1

But:
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/12.03/robot.html
...which has the classic Battlebots line of "Can you drive over a 
competitor's vehicle? "I wouldn't describe running over another vehicle as 
incidental contact," says Negron. "What if it is a carefully navigated 
maneuver?" the guy asks. Negron shakes his head. "No.""

:-)

-Hank

>brandon