On Wed, Sep 24, 2003 at 12:09:40AM +0100, Toad wrote: > On Mon, Sep 22, 2003 at 03:02:42PM -0700, Ian Clarke wrote: > > Firstly, a DoS attack on a known Freenet node is always going to be > > possible because a DoS attack on any given IP address, irrespective of > > what services it is running, is within the capability of the average 12 > > year old script kiddie. > > 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.
Back some time it was easy to "acquire" bandwidth by smurf attacks making even POT lines deadly. I'm sure that was kiddie-scriptable. Internet is still there. -- Ragnar Hojland - Project Manager Linalco "Specialists in Linux and Free Software" http://www.linalco.com Tel: +34-91-5970074 Fax: +34-91-5970083 _______________________________________________ Devl mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://dodo.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devl
