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Two words (well...one hyphenated-reference): spoofed-source bah, --ra -- k. rachael treu, CISSP [email protected] ..quis costodiet ipsos custodes?.. On Wed, Mar 10, 2004 at 11:50:56PM -0800, Gregory Taylor said something to the effect of: > > Oh yes, lets not forget the fact that if enough sites have this > 'firewall' and one of them gets attacked by other sites using this > firewall it'll create a nuclear fission sized chain reaction of looping > Denial of Service Attacks that would probably bring most major backbone > providers to their knees. > > (Popcorn's in the microwave as I speak) > > Greg > > Jay Hennigan wrote: > > >On Wed, 10 Mar 2004, Gregory Taylor wrote: > > > > > > > >>After reading that article, if this product really is capable of > >>'counter striking DDoS attacks', my assumption is that it will fire > >>packets back at the nodes attacking it. Doing such an attack would not > >>be neither feasible or legal. You would only double the affect that the > >>initial attack caused to begin with, plus you would be attacking hacked > >>machines and not the culprit themselves, thus pouring gasoline all over > >>an already blazing inferno. > >> > >> > > > >On the other hand, they could become immensely popular, reaching the > >critical mass when one of them detects what is interpreted as an attack > >from a network protected by another. Grab the popcorn and watch as they > >all bludgeon each other to death. :-) > > > > > > >
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