Re: Permitting spoofed traffic [Was: Re: ddos attack blog]
On 2/14/2014 12:42 PM, Paul Ferguson wrote:
Taken to the logical extreme, the "right thing" to do is to deny any spoofed traffic from abusing these services altogether.
Since the 1990s I have argued (ineffectively, it turns out) a case that says that sentence can be edited down to good advantage as:
Taken to the logical extreme, the "right thing" to do is to deny any spoofed traffic.
-- Requiescas in pace o email Two identifying characteristics of System Administrators: Ex turpi causa non oritur actio Infallibility, and the ability to learn from their mistakes. (Adapted from Stephen Pinker)
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 On 2/14/2014 3:00 PM, Larry Sheldon wrote:
On 2/14/2014 12:42 PM, Paul Ferguson wrote:
Taken to the logical extreme, the "right thing" to do is to deny any spoofed traffic from abusing these services altogether.
Since the 1990s I have argued (ineffectively, it turns out) a case that says that sentence can be edited down to good advantage as:
Taken to the logical extreme, the "right thing" to do is to deny any spoofed traffic.
But of course. :-) - - ferg - -- Paul Ferguson VP Threat Intelligence, IID PGP Public Key ID: 0x54DC85B2 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.22 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iF4EAREIAAYFAlL+y1QACgkQKJasdVTchbIgWgEAns/Nw6pqK+BaXSmI2DmP5J9Z mxeVg3KTCHdMBSDeZXAA/2+PlVSwHXdFem6hwRC/iv1+zscghkwUgimGbhKA5Gnx =VXx2 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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