On Wed, 10 Mar 2004, Mark Borchers wrote:
> > > The company said it bases its theory on the military doctrine of > > "necessity and proportionality", which means the response to > > an attack is > > proportionate to the attack's ferocity. According to the > > company, a response could range from "profiling and > > blacklisting upstream providers" or it > > could be escalated to launch a "distributed denial of service > > counter-strike" ... > > Their ROE white paper is full of pseudo-military phraseology > that suggests lots of safeguards in place to respond only to > verifiably culpable adversaries and to ensure responsible > executive oversight.....right up to the point when they > start talking about distributed denial of service counterattacks > (under the heading which they refer to as "assymmetric measures"). hopefully they will spend their time attacking that pesky attacker: 127.0.0.1... he's always attacking customers, shouldn't he have been caught by now?