-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, May 1, 2009 at 2:42 PM, Paul M. Moriarty <[email protected]> wrote:
> The "botnet as a weapon" genie is already out of the bottle. Why > shouldn't the military have one too? > So, are you advocating the fact that all networks in the path of a DDoS will suffer the consequences of resource exhaustion? The whole idea of mutually assured destruction, and collateral damage, are ideas that are brain damaged, in my opinion. Plus, if the IP addresses of the "military botnet" nodes are known & public, it is trivial to packet filter them so as to render it basically useless. - - ferg -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP Desktop 9.5.3 (Build 5003) wj8DBQFJ+27aq1pz9mNUZTMRAlwPAJ4hvpLf+tKehg5yRSB+A1du0JaKFwCg24tV a5PihvETkLeSHr8hsyY93zw= =d4TP -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- "Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson Engineering Architecture for the Internet fergdawgster(at)gmail.com ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/ _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
