Re: Yahoo! Lessons Learned

[Andrew Brown <twofsonet () graffiti com>]

> > When I asked a couple dialup wholesalers this question point blank last
> > year, the answer was no - because their routers/term servers didn't have
> > enough CPU to do filtering.
>
> i am rather amused at folk who fear dialup systems being used as ddos
> slaves.

it rather depends on whether you consider dsl to be dialup.  and they
don't have to be slaves.  i could be a ddos *controller* over a 2400
baud modem.  :)

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