Joel Jaeggli wrote:
On Thu, 11 Mar 2004, Petri Helenius wrote:
Gregory Taylor wrote:
Oh yes, lets not forget the fact that if enough sites have this 'firewall' and one of them gets attacked by other sites using this firewall it'll create a nuclear fission sized chain reaction of looping Denial of Service Attacks that would probably bring most major backbone providers to their knees.
Fortunately people with less clue usually have less bandwidth.
When pricing structures and deployment of broadband in the US approaches that of Korea and Japan, I think you'll find that that isn't the case in the US anymore.
Out of interest, do the people see much in the way of DDOS attacks from Japan? All that bandwidth and quite a sizable population (130 million) - but maybe the latency to US and European targets contrains it? Sam