4 Oct
1996
4 Oct
'96
12:07 a.m.
Rob Liebschutz writes:
It scares me to think how much effort has gone into defense against this one denial of service attack when there are endless possibilities for other ones.
Really? I don't think enough effort has been expended... which is why I'm expending more. Th point is not that we have to defeat the SYN attacks. We all know by now that the severity of that problem is, at least for modern OSes, reduced to a tolerable level (or will be soon). But these SYN attacks are just the precursor to other even more dangerous attacks that all share one characteristic: forged source addresses. If we can use this event to raise consciousness about the forged-source issue, everyone wins big. And if we don't... well, film at 11, as we say. /a