On Sun, May 19, 2002 at 12:12:01AM -0700, goemon@anime.net said: [snip]
And what the critics keep missing is that it will take several landmine hits across the internet to invoke a blackhole. Just scanning a few individual hosts or /24s won't do it.
There are three aims of the landmine project:
1) early warning 2) defensive response 3) deterrence
I realize such a project won't be absolutely, positively perfect in every aspect, and it won't satisfy 100% of the people 100% of the time. But that's hardly an excuse to not do it. IMO the positives outweigh the negatives by far.
This is what I have been (unsuccessfully) attempting to state. I apparently need more practice in being coherent. :) -- Scott Francis darkuncle@ [home:] d a r k u n c l e . n e t Systems/Network Manager sfrancis@ [work:] t o n o s . c o m GPG public key 0xCB33CCA7 illum oportet crescere me autem minui