At 12:47 AM -0800 2/9/00, Carol A Braddock wrote:
>Now we have all been through this denial of service attack thingy,
>that is occurring at all these high traffic web sites,
>
>and it just occurred to me that:
>
>You'd think that they would put up some of those
>wonderful Tim May'isms that are out there
>on all those lovely web pages they are attacking.....
I don't know abou _that_, but I do know that the attacks are made possible
by the flawed way the Net works.
The flaw is the same one that makes spam so common: resources are free.
When it costs nothing to send a million e-mails....
When it costs nothing to hit a site with a flood of requests...
"Security" is not the issue. The problem is allocation of resources.
Even a _small_ fee would solve most of these problems.
(Sites which wish to be "free," like Yahoo, could arrange reverse
micropayments.)
Familiar territory to us here.
--Tim May
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Timothy C. May | Crypto Anarchy: encryption, digital money,
ComSec 3DES: 831-728-0152 | anonymous networks, digital pseudonyms, zero
W.A.S.T.E.: Corralitos, CA | knowledge, reputations, information markets,
"Cyphernomicon" | black markets, collapse of governments.
