> operations, such as man-in-the-middle attacks, but denial of
> service attacks
> don't require anything other than the attacker have more
> bandwidth than the
> target.
>
> Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software
True. The particular high-publicity attacks of a month or so back though
used a technique that amplified their attacks generating more load than pure
bandwidth alone could produce. Sort of like what enriching an atomic bomb
with a deutrium shell does for an h-bomb. ;-)
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