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Joel Jaeggli wrote: > On Thu, 11 Mar 2004, Petri Helenius wrote: > >> >> Gregory Taylor wrote: >> >>> >>> 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. >>> >> Fortunately people with less clue usually have less bandwidth. > > When pricing structures and deployment of broadband in the US > approaches that of Korea and Japan, I think you'll find that that > isn't the case in the US anymore. Out of interest, do the people see much in the way of DDOS attacks from Japan? All that bandwidth and quite a sizable population (130 million) - but maybe the latency to US and European targets contrains it? Sam
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