Re: Bad Idea of The Week: 'Friendly Botnets'

[Blue Boar <BlueBoar () thievco com>]

Possibly more of a bad name. I don't see anything inherently evil in 
distributed front-end proxies. Doubtful how workable it is, though.

                                        BB

Paul Ferguson wrote:
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> Via New Scientist.
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> Beating the "botnets" – armies of infected computers used to attack
> websites – requires borrowing tactics from the bad guys, say computer
> security researchers.
>
> A team at the University of Washington, US, want to marshal swarms of good
> computers to neutralise the bad ones. They say their plan would be cheap to
> implement and could cope with botnets of any size.
>
> Current countermeasures are being outstripped by the growing size of
> botnets, says the Washington team, but assembling swarms of good computers
> in defense could render DDoS attacks obsolete.
>
> Their system, called Phalanx, uses its own large network of computers to
> shield the protected server. Instead of the server being accessed directly,
> all information must pass through the swarm of "mailbox" computers.
>
> A paper on Phalanx was presented at the USENIX symposium on Networked
> Systems Design and Implementation, held last week in San Francisco, US.
>
> [snip]
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> More:
> http://technology.newscientist.com/article/dn13753-to-defeat-a-malicious-bo
> tnet-build-a-friendly-one.html
>
> - - ferg
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