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Re: Yahoo! Lessons Learned

  • From: Andrew Brown
  • Date: Wed Feb 09 17:41:53 2000

>> When I asked a couple dialup wholesalers this question point blank last
>> year, the answer was no - because their routers/term servers didn't have
>> enough CPU to do filtering.
>
>i am rather amused at folk who fear dialup systems being used as ddos
>slaves.

it rather depends on whether you consider dsl to be dialup.  and they
don't have to be slaves.  i could be a ddos *controller* over a 2400
baud modem.  :)

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