[54887] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Is there a line of defense against Distributed Reflective attacks?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David G. Andersen)
Mon Jan 20 00:54:29 2003
Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2003 00:53:30 -0500
From: "David G. Andersen" <dga@lcs.mit.edu>
To: Deepak Jain <deepak@ai.net>
Cc: Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com>,
"Steven M. Bellovin" <smb@research.att.com>, nanog@merit.edu
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Deepak Jain <deepak@ai.net>, Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com>,
"Steven M. Bellovin" <smb@research.att.com>, nanog@merit.edu
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On Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 12:25:27AM -0500, Deepak Jain mooed:
>
> As long as the car _moves_ under its own power across the highway, its
> essentially not the car manufacturers' (or the consumers') immediate
> concern.
That's really not true. Before car companies sell cars, they
pass (lots of) safety certification tests. Before owners drive
cars legally, they pass a safety and emissions test. Sure, the
highway folks clean up after the occasional tire blowout, but
there's been a lot of work put in to make sure that the engines
aren't going to drop out on a regular basis.
If the Internet was a highway, it would be covered in burned-out engines.
-Dave
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