Counter DoS

Thu Mar 11 13:12:04 UTC 2004

At 02:25 AM 3/11/2004, Gregory Taylor wrote:

>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.

Plus imagine an attack originates behind one of these devices for some 
reason attacking another device. It'll just create a massive loop. :) That 
would be interesting.

Vinny Abello
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