On Wed, Sep 24, 2003 at 12:09:40AM +0100, Toad spake thusly: > Wrong. Total bullshit. A 12 year old kiddie can DoS an address IF HE HAS > OR CAN ACQUIRE MORE BANDWIDTH THAN THE TARGET. Otherwise the internet > would have been completely destroyed aeons ago.
I think you are coming on just a bit too strong here. And who couldn't take over a few dozen windows boxes and acquire more aggregate bandwidth than the target if they really wanted to? It is largely due to the fact that most people aren't interested in doing these things that the Internet wasn't destroyed aeons ago. > > An attacker with the ability to monitor a node's communications will > > presumably have the ability to just cut off that node's internet > > connection too - they wouldn't even need to bother with the attack you > > describe. > > Perhaps, perhaps not. If you can sniff the line you can see the tcp sequence numbers and easily kill any connection. For non-tcp if you know the protocol you can inject your own commands and cause disconnect or confuse things as to render them useless. -- Tracy Reed http://copilotconsulting.com
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