Re: Arbor Networks DoS defense product

[Dan Hollis <goemon () anime net>]

On Wed, 15 May 2002, Rob Thomas wrote:
> ] scanning would quickly become self defeating as attackers would only
> ] manage to cut themselves off from the net.
> To some degree, yes.  Most of the miscreants are clueful enough not to
> scan from their home machines.

I disagree. They have to start somewhere. Most miscreants first attack 
offshore hosts, then use those to attack domestic victims.

> The end result is a lot of hacked hosts are black holed.

And this is a bad thing?

> On one hand you could say "serves 'em right for being hacked!"  On the 
> other hand, you could wonder why it is that the non-geek broadband users 
> must be system, network, and firewall administrators.

They don't. This is purely a response to rogue networks/blackhats and 
apathetic/irresponsible/toothless NOCs.

-Dan
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