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.
Obviously there are exceptions. I would expect to see localized tragedies if something like this would get deployed but predicting death of the internet is clueless.
Pete
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