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Subject: Re: SYS Floods - solution-2
From: peter @ baileynm . com (Peter da Silva)
Date: Tue, 17 Sep 1996 09:36:50 -0500 (CDT)
To: firewalls @ greatcircle . com
In-reply-to: <Pine . BSI . 3 . 95 . 960917094825 . 29160G-100000 @ creator . gu . kiev . ua> from "Andrew Stesin" at Sep 17, 96 09:53:54 am

> How would you force everyone to switch this "on"?

That's a political question. It would depend on the cooperation
of vendors and ISPs. Much as anything else on the Internet does.

> BTW why do you think that everyone everywhere is both so
> smart and cooperative to protect _you_ on _their_
> routers?

If a handful of biggies turn this on you can at least shortcut
the process of tracing the black hats down. You don't need
everyone everywhere.

> I always thought that if the protection
> lawyer is close to the attack target, and even better -- if
> the protection is owned and controlled by the target itself --
> then the chances of protection to work and to be maintained
> properly are better. Otherwise -- whom to blame? ;)

You blame the person who initiated the attack, of course.

Oh, you said "protection lawyer". Was that deliberate? It's
funny as hell.


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