Schneier: ISPs should bear security burden

Wed Apr 27 20:20:12 UTC 2005

On Wed, 27 Apr 2005, Owen DeLong wrote:
> From that perspective, in my experience, things are better today than they
> ever have been.

The only thing I've seen in the past 20 years which has made any positive
impact on overall internet reliability is BGP dampening. In all other 
cases its gotten worse as networks are ground to dust by daily DDOS 
attacks. You can read daily about sites xyz or networks xyz being 
unreachable for hours/days/weeks/months due to DDOS attacks. Compared to 
20 years ago I would have to say overall things are worse not better.

-Dan