[68375] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Counter DoS
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sean Donelan)
Thu Mar 11 01:59:54 2004
Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2004 01:59:17 -0500 (EST)
From: Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com>
To: "Steven M. Bellovin" <smb@research.att.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <20040311015521.927467B43@berkshire.research.att.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Wed, 10 Mar 2004, Steven M. Bellovin wrote:
> In message <0aa101c40707$eebc2650$dbc21e43@Somi>, "Joshua Brady" writes:
> >
> >http://news.zdnet.co.uk/internet/security/0,39020375,39148215,00.htm
> >
> >Comments?
>
> The phrase "seriously bad idea" comes to mind. Other phrases include
> "illegal", "collateral damage", and "stupid".
Any publicity is good publicity.
They haven't actually explained or shown what their product does. Just a
bunch of puffery to get the press to write about them.
In the 1990's another company announced their new security product:
"Sidewinder: The firewall that strikes back!" at the National Computer
Security Conference in Baltimore. Sidewinder used lots of information
warfare quotes from Winn Schwartau and ex-military types staffing their
sales suite.
I wouldn't be surprised when they finally reveal their product it is a lot
less than the hype. Right now its a bit like a movie the movie studio
won't give the critics an advanced screening, but has a big advertising
budget. Usually that is a sign of a stinker.
