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Re: A modest proposal

  • From: Robert E. Seastrom
  • Date: Tue Sep 17 21:01:27 1996 
   From: Michael Dillon <[email protected]>

   If it only takes 8 SYN packets to lock up a socket for 75 seconds then
   effective SYN flood attacks certainly *CAN* be launched from a dialup
   connection. And if the definition of an effective attack allows for
   intermittently shutting down a socket then effective attacks certainly
   *CAN be launched from places like Uruguay, Brazil, Indonesia and so forth.

The kids don't have this much finesse; witness the 2000 packet/sec
attacks recently seen.  Look for trouble where there isn't any (yet)
after getting the current problem dealt with, eh?

                                        ---Rob


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