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Re: Is there a line of defense against Distributed Reflective attacks?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Vadim Antonov)
Fri Jan 17 06:24:35 2003

Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2003 03:23:32 -0800 (PST)
From: Vadim Antonov <avg@kotovnik.com>
To: Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.44.0301170313320.11109-100000@clifden.donelan.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu


 
> Do we need te equivalent of a dog bite law for computers.  If your
> computer attacks another computer, the owner is responsible.  File a
> police report, and the ISP will give the results of the *57 trace to
> the local police.  The police can then put down the rabid computer,
> permanently.

Good in theory... in practice police has more important things to do. Like
catching pot smokers. 

--vadim


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