[191905] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Legislative proposal sent to my Congressman
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Florian Weimer)
Mon Oct 3 20:40:37 2016
X-Original-To: nanog@nanog.org
From: Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>
To: Lyndon Nerenberg <lyndon@orthanc.ca>
Date: Mon, 03 Oct 2016 21:54:38 +0200
In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.20.1610031244440.94184@orthanc.ca> (Lyndon
Nerenberg's message of "Mon, 3 Oct 2016 12:47:22 -0700 (PDT)")
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
* Lyndon Nerenberg:
>> In thinking over the last DDos involving IoT devices, I think we
>> don't have a good technical solution to the problem. Cutting off
>> people with defective devices they they don't understand, and have
>> little control over, is an action that makes sense, but hurts the
>> innocent. "Hey, Grandma, did you know your TV set is hurting the
>> Internet?"
>
> The way this will get solved is for a couple of large ISPs and DDoS
> targets to sue a few of these IoT device manufacturers into oblivion.
But that does not remove those devices from the network.
