Re: Counter DoS

[Jay Hennigan <jay () west net>]

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.  :-)

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