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Re: New Denial of Service Attack on Panix

  • From: Paul Ferguson
  • Date: Thu Oct 03 18:58:34 1996

At 06:43 PM 10/3/96 EDT, Daniel W. McRobb wrote:

>
>I think Tim was using the assumption (which I consider quite valid) that
>once vendors release patches, those being attacked are likely to apply a
>patch quite quickly.  It's a motivaton issue... people are much more
>motivated to save their own butts in a hurry before trying to save
>everyone else's.  ;-)
>

Well, I would tend to agree with you here. Incentive comes in different
flavors.

In any event, and being a realist, I don't envision either one to
be implemented with blazing speed.

- paul

>I think most folks in this forum are good netizens and want to do the
>Right Thing(s) for everyone.  Others, especially those not privy to all
>the fuss about this issue, are less likely to take action and will
>probably be hosting these attacks for a while, possibly w/o knowing it
>until someone tracks it down and yells at them and/or they're attacked
>themselves (in which case they'll probably reach for things to protect
>themselves before trying to protect others).
>


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