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On Sep 17, 10:48am, David Miller wrote: > Subject: RE: New Denial of Service Attack on Panix > On Mon, 16 Sep 1996, Jim Browning wrote: > > > Rather than "educate the enemy" via public discussion, I think it would be > > best if those capable of contributing to solutions to this problem: > > > > 1. Collaborated in private > > 2. Developed a consensus "I-D" > > > > If a solution is developed whose effectiveness is not weakened by making > > the details public, it can be published. If that is not the case, the > > solution can be made available in private to "known entities". > > > > Make sense? > > No. > > There's no way to tell all the good guys from all the bad guys. > If one "bad-guy" get's on the "good guy" listthen you've just lost all > adavantage of having the "private" discussion. And in the meantime > you've shut out all the guys who are "good" but somehow not on the "good > guy" list. > >-- End of excerpt from David Miller Agreed. CERT has followed this theory with poor results. -- Sharif Torpis ([email protected]) \ | / P A C I F I C Pacific Bell Internet -->*<-- B E L L Network Engineering / | \ I N T E R N E T San Francisco, CA USA - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
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