Re: Mutually Assured DDoS

[Paul Ferguson <fergdawgster () gmail com>]

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On Fri, May 1, 2009 at 2:42 PM, Paul M. Moriarty <pmm () igtc com> wrote:

> The "botnet as a weapon" genie is already out of the bottle.  Why
> shouldn't the military have one too?

So, are you advocating the fact that all networks in the path of a DDoS
will suffer the consequences of resource exhaustion?

The whole idea of mutually assured destruction, and collateral damage, are
ideas that are brain damaged, in my opinion.

Plus, if the IP addresses of the "military botnet" nodes are known &
public, it is trivial to packet filter them so as to render it basically
useless.

- - ferg

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