[68388] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Counter DoS
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Hank Nussbacher)
Thu Mar 11 04:53:10 2004
Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2004 11:52:00 +0200
To: Brandon Butterworth <brandon@rd.bbc.co.uk>, nanog@merit.edu
From: Hank Nussbacher <hank@att.net.il>
In-Reply-To: <200403110943.JAA10664@sunf10.rd.bbc.co.uk>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
At 09:43 AM 11-03-04 +0000, Brandon Butterworth wrote:
> > The Symbiot whitepaper on their service describes a process with a
> > little more imagination
>
>Like hooking it up to DARPA Grand Challenge winners?
>
>http://abcnews.go.com/sections/SciTech/WorldNewsTonight/robot_race_darpa_040310-1.html
They recently revised the rules downward:
http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,62608,00.html?tw=wn_tophead_3
> > I applaud the idea of a outsourced department that will manage the
> > denial of service, and "hordes of script kiddie"
>
>trouble with sending a droid round to kick ass is you've
>just made Skynet V0.1
But:
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/12.03/robot.html
...which has the classic Battlebots line of "Can you drive over a
competitor's vehicle? "I wouldn't describe running over another vehicle as
incidental contact," says Negron. "What if it is a carefully navigated
maneuver?" the guy asks. Negron shakes his head. "No.""
:-)
-Hank
>brandon
