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Re: Counter DoS
From: Gregory Taylor <greg () xwb com>
Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2004 23:50:56 -0800
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. :-)
Current thread:
- Counter DoS Joshua Brady (Mar 10)
- Re: Counter DoS Steven M. Bellovin (Mar 10)
- Re: Counter DoS Travis Dawson (Mar 10)
- Re: Counter DoS Sean Donelan (Mar 10)
- Re: Counter DoS Gregory Taylor (Mar 10)
- Re: Counter DoS Gregory Taylor (Mar 10)
- Re: Counter DoS Jay Hennigan (Mar 10)
- Re: Counter DoS Gregory Taylor (Mar 10)
- Re: Counter DoS Petri Helenius (Mar 11)
- Re: Counter DoS william(at)elan.net (Mar 11)
- Re: Counter DoS Eric Gauthier (Mar 11)
- Re: Counter DoS Laurence F. Sheldon, Jr. (Mar 11)
- Re: Counter DoS Stephen J. Wilcox (Mar 12)
- Re: Counter DoS Joel Jaeggli (Mar 12)
- Re: Counter DoS Sam Stickland (Mar 13)
- Re: Counter DoS Petri Helenius (Mar 13)
- Re: Counter DoS Steven M. Bellovin (Mar 10)
- Re: Counter DoS Petri Helenius (Mar 14)
- Re: Counter DoS Stephen J. Wilcox (Mar 14)