[54876] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Is there a line of defense against Distributed Reflective attacks?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Kurt Erik Lindqvist)
Sun Jan 19 17:17:05 2003
Date: Sun, 19 Jan 2003 20:57:49 +0100
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
To: Clayton Fiske <clay@bloomcounty.org>
From: Kurt Erik Lindqvist <kurtis@kurtis.pp.se>
In-Reply-To: <20030117192747.GD53437@bloomcounty.org>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
> Without getting too much into the likelihood of any legal body actually
> understanding anyone's role in an attack besides the attacker and the
> victim, in this land where tobacco companies are sued by smokers who
> get lung cancer and fast food restaurants are sued by fat people there
> must be room for such cases as:
>
> "XYZ Corp cost me $5mil in lost business. They were negligent in
> securing their (network|host) from being used as a DoS attack tool
> despite being informed of such by us both before and during said
> attack."
>
....and I always thought the US legal system was flawed.....where do I
file? :)
- kurtis -
