On 09/25/2016 01:11 AM, Steve Kinney wrote: > Maybe I'm going all Chicken Little here, maybe not. But I think this > development may be the closest thing to an Internet Armageddon we are > likely to see in our lifetimes. > > http://arstechnica.com/security/2016/09/why-the-silencing-of-krebsonsecu > rity-opens-a-troubling-chapter-for-the-net/ > > =or= > > https://tinyurl.com/znzno7q > > How does thee patch that which is Unpatchable? DDOS now includes the > death of a million ankle biters: Not just unpatchable, but massively > distributed, with a continuing profit motive and no liability for the > manufacturers, paid for and plugged in by hundreds of millions of > "regular folks" throughout the so-called Developed Nations. > > So far every mitigation strategy relevant to "normal" users and use > cases that occurs to me would be worse than the original problem.
Yes, it's for sure a hard problem. Any entity resourceful enough to withstand Tbps DDoS is likely a huge privacy risk :( On the other hand, Krebs has been totally asking for it, for years ;) He's been going after major cybercriminals, who perhaps have major connections with global TLAs. And he's often been a jerk about it. Hugely self-righteous, and humorless. So meh ;) > :o/ > >