On Nov 8, 2009, at 2:33 AM, Stefan Fouant wrote:
if the discussion hasn't shifted from that of DDoS to EDoS, it should.
All DDoS is 'EDoS' - it's a distinction without a difference, IMHO. DDoS costs opex, can cost direct revenue, can induce capex spends - it's all about economics at bottom, always has been, or nobody would care in the first place. And look at click-fraud attacks in which the miscreants either a) are committing fraud by causing botnets to make fake clicks so that they can be paid for same or b) wish to exhaust a rival's advertising budget when he's paying per-impression. Plain old packet-flooding DDoSes can cost victims/unwitting sources big money in transit costs, can cost SPs in transit and/or violating peering agreements, etc. There's no need or justification for a separate term; Chris Hoff bounced 'EDoS' around earlier this year, and the same arguments apply. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Roland Dobbins <rdobbins@arbor.net> // <http://www.arbornetworks.com> Injustice is relatively easy to bear; what stings is justice. -- H.L. Mencken