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Re: DDOS attacks lately?


From: Shawn McMahon <smcmahon () eiv com>
Date: Sun, 20 Aug 2000 09:59:23 -0400

On Sun, Aug 20, 2000 at 03:00:18PM +0200, Mikael Abrahamsson wrote:

A start would be to make it criminal negligence worldwide to operate a
network that can be abused even after several notices about this fact.

This would be approximately equivalent to making it criminal negligence to
build a street wide enough to accomodate two car bombs at once.

Except, of course, that the latter case is far more important than some
search engine's web page.

The current move to try to improve traceability of packets is the right
solution.  Any solution that involves worldwide laws is a non-starter.

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