[68377] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Counter DoS
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Gregory Taylor)
Thu Mar 11 02:24:32 2004
Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2004 23:25:20 -0800
From: Gregory Taylor <greg@xwb.com>
To: nanog@merit.edu
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
After reading that article, if this product really is capable of
'counter striking DDoS attacks', my assumption is that it will fire
packets back at the nodes attacking it. Doing such an attack would not
be neither feasible or legal. You would only double the affect that the
initial attack caused to begin with, plus you would be attacking hacked
machines and not the culprit themselves, thus pouring gasoline all over
an already blazing inferno.
This product is a bad bad idea and anyone who invests money into it
should slap themselves very hard with a metal gauntlet for being so
gullible.
Greg
>>> In message <0aa101c40707$eebc2650$dbc21e43@Somi>, "Joshua Brady"
>>> writes:
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>>>> http://news.zdnet.co.uk/internet/security/0,39020375,39148215,00.htm
>>>>
>>>> Comments?
>>>>
>>>
