[38540] in North American Network Operators' Group
Negligent companies face DDOS liability
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dan Hollis)
Wed Jun 6 20:07:51 2001
Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2001 17:07:20 -0700 (PDT)
From: Dan Hollis <goemon@anime.net>
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http://www.hackerwhacker.com/showarticle.dyn?article=http://computerworld.com/cwi/stories/0,1199,NAV65-663_STO60729,00.html
I've been saying this for a long time.
Sooner or later complacent/negligent/lazy/incompetent tier1's are going
to be found liable for DDOS damages.
I expect a flood of panicky RPF deployment as soon as the first lawsuits
hit the courts.
-Dan
