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Re: I don't need no stinking firewall!

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dobbins, Roland)
Fri Jan 8 08:27:32 2010

From: "Dobbins, Roland" <rdobbins@arbor.net>
To: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 2010 13:25:28 +0000
In-Reply-To: <4B473178.7010100@kruchas.com>
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On Jan 8, 2010, at 8:22 PM, bill from home wrote:

> Or as I suspect we are talking about a larger scale?

Even an attacker with relatively moderate resources can succeed simply by c=
reating enough well-formed, programatically-generated traffic to 'crowd out=
' legitimate traffic.

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