[110380] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Ethical DDoS drone network
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Zach)
Sun Jan 4 21:15:57 2009
Date: Sun, 4 Jan 2009 20:14:47 -0600
From: Zach <admin@racksecurity.net>
To: "Jeffrey Lyon" <jeffrey.lyon@blacklotus.net>
In-Reply-To: <16720fe00901041806m395fd949h1dafdfaf3c2aa520@mail.gmail.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
I would say to roll your own binary hardcoded to only hit 1 IP address, and
have it held on a law enforcement approved network under the supervision of
a qualified agent. 0.02
On Sun, Jan 4, 2009 at 8:06 PM, Jeffrey Lyon <jeffrey.lyon@blacklotus.net>wrote:
> Say for instance one wanted to create an "ethical botnet," how would
> this be done in a manner that is legal, non-abusive toward other
> networks, and unquestionably used for legitimate internal security
> purposes? How does your company approach this dilemma?
>
> Our company for instance has always relied on outside attacks to spot
> check our security and i'm beginning to think there may be a more user
> friendly alternative.
>
> Thoughts?
>
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