North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: FW: Re: Is there a line of defense against Distributed Reflective attacks?
And their are legal uses for p2p. I have a customer who works with some of these technologies for legal and approved file transfers like game publishing. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Christopher L. Morrow" <[email protected]> To: "Avleen Vig" <[email protected]> Cc: "Christopher L. Morrow" <[email protected]>; "Daniel Senie" <[email protected]>; <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, January 20, 2003 5:22 PM Subject: Re: FW: Re: Is there a line of defense against Distributed Reflective attacks? > > > On Mon, 20 Jan 2003, Avleen Vig wrote: > > > Doesn't this stop kazaa/morpheus/gnutella/FTP/<some aim stuff like private > > > chats>? This is a problematic setup, and woudl require the cable modem > > > provider to maintain a quickly changing 'firewall' :( I understand the > > > want to do it, but I'm not sure its practical to see it happen based > > > solely on the hassle factor :( Hmm, security, "you gotta pay to play" > > > (Some famous man once said that I believe) > > > > Indeed it does break that. P2P clients: Mostly transfer illegal content. > > As much as a lot of people love using these, I'm sure most realise they're > > on borrowed time in their current state. > > And I'm sure that if they were gone tomorrow, I'm sure they'd be back in > > another fashion soon. > > That may be, but its still a problem... I believe http and ftp also > transfer illegal content, should we shut them down? Email too? Often there > is illegal content in email. :( > > > Ftp/HTTP etc I believe most cable providers currently block these anyway > > :-) > > > > for FTP I was talking about non-passive data traffic. > > >
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