[91117] in Cypherpunks
Re: At night, the ice weasels come...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Rabid Wombat)
Sun Nov 30 16:21:15 1997
Date: Sun, 30 Nov 1997 14:25:55 -0500 (EST)
From: Rabid Wombat <wombat@mcfeely.bsfs.org>
To: "Dr.Dimitri Vulis KOTM" <dlv@bwalk.dm.com>
cc: cypherpunks@toad.com
In-Reply-To: <mRsyge2w165w@bwalk.dm.com>
Reply-To: Rabid Wombat <wombat@mcfeely.bsfs.org>
On Sat, 29 Nov 1997, Dr.Dimitri Vulis KOTM wrote:
> TruthMonger <tm@dev.null> writes:
>
> > http://www.pretext.com/nov97/short3.htm
> >
> > "Don't get me wrong. I'm not a technophobe. I just think people need to
> > practice safe surfing," Cottrell says.
> > "In some ways the Anonymizer is the virtual condom."
>
> What will Cottrell do if someone uses his anonymizer(R)[TM] to connect to
> someone's web server many times in a row, requesting the same pages, and
> the admins of said server whine about "denial of service" attacks?
>
Make sure you turn off your local cache, Dr.
Anonymizer could also cache frequently requested pages. Also, there are a
lot better ways to launch an anonymous DoS than to load pages off a
server via an anonymous proxy.
