Hmm... ping -f, spray, they already exist. While they are occassionally used maliciously, surely they aren't evidence of the death of the net....
Well, ping -f and spray coming out a dialup line won't do much harm anyway. But imagine a "spray server" set up on a RISC machine on a T3 somewhere that a hacker figures out how to manipulate from his dialup. This is in essence the original CU-SeeMe situation, except the problem wasn't dialup hackers getting the reflectors to point big udp streams at other addresses, it was legitimate users inviting the udp streams to be directed at themselves. And no, I'm not predicting the death of the net. It will find ways to overcome whatever happens. However, it would be a lot easier on all of us if some things were avoided in the first place. -- Dick St.Peters, Gatekeeper, Pearly Gateway, Ballston Spa, NY stpeters@NetHeaven.com Owner, NetHeaven 518-885-1295/800-910-6671 Internet for Albany/Saratoga, Glens Falls, North Creek, & Lake Placid First Internet service based in the 518 area code