Re: Professor Main Target of Assault on Twitter - NYTimes.com *PLEASE ANONYMIZE*

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

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Date: August 9, 2009 12:57:57 AM EDT
To: dave () farber net
Subject: Re: [IP] Re:   Professor Main Target of Assault on Twitter -  
NYTimes.com *PLEASE ANONYMIZE*

*PLEASE ANONYMIZE*

Dave,

As a designer of ISP networks, and with extensive experience in the  
ISP field, this is a common complaint I hear from the 99.9%  
(literally) of Internet users who do not understand how the individual  
networks making up the Internet inter-operate.  The road to hell is  
paved with good intentions (sometimes). Sure, we could create  
standards which would prevent a large scale DoS of this nature from  
being directed at a single Internet user -- assuming the reports are  
actually accurate, and I'm not convinced those are -- but doing so  
will come at the expense of every Internet user's privacy.  Deep  
packet inspection combined with a sharing of ALL public Internet  
databases would probably be the first required step in such a  
direction, to fix this "infrastructure problem".  Of course, when seen  
through the lens of the Great Chinese Firewall, and its' sequel, the  
Great Australian Firewall, it is obvious that the first organizations  
to jump on board will be governments, democratic or otherwise. The  
amount of resources (human, financial, technical) would undoubtedly be  
a wonderful boon to the global economy, and I for one, would profit  
substantially from it.  But perhaps a question should be posed to the  
individual below:  Would you be willing to be eliminated from the  
Internet entirely, on whatever basis is deemed justified by people you  
have and will never meet?

PS- This curious social networking DoS (after all, it wasn't just  
Twitter that was affected, but any Web 2.0 site that was tied into it)  
was preceded the day before by a short term increase in global  
internet traffic, seen by Internet exchanges around the world.  It  
made a lot of folks like me wonder.





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