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Re: Over a decade of DDOS--any progress yet?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Adrian Chadd)
Wed Dec 8 00:09:33 2010

Date: Wed, 8 Dec 2010 13:09:24 +0800
From: Adrian Chadd <adrian@creative.net.au>
To: "Dobbins, Roland" <rdobbins@arbor.net>
In-Reply-To: <1C39BCE5-C446-4967-95D6-2D9FE8996A6A@arbor.net>
Cc: North American Operators' Group <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org

On Wed, Dec 08, 2010, Dobbins, Roland wrote:
> 
> On Dec 8, 2010, at 11:52 AM, Adrian Chadd wrote:
> 
> > The real problem is people.
> 
> Well, yes - but short of mass bombardment, eliminating people doesn't scale very well, and is generally frowned upon.
> 
> ;>

I think history can conclusively state we're much, much better at eliminating
people then we are hacked boxes; that politicians seem much happier somehow
about the former than the latter; and our collective "clue" at being able to
do so is growing much faster than our electronic toolkits. :-)

(Oh god. :-)



Adrian



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