On Jan 23, 2009, at 10:31 PM, valdis.kletni...@vt.edu wrote:
On Fri, 23 Jan 2009 18:33:14 PST, Seth Mattinen said:
Back to my original question: is there really not a better solution?
Well, we *could* hunt down the perpetrators, pool some $$, and hire
3 or 4
baseball-bat wielding professional explainers to go explain our
position to
them. Figuring out how to do so without breaking any laws is the
tough part..
The Cameros or SUVs and baseball bats are normally not in sync with
local legal traditions, depending on your local legal statutes. A
certain ISP in California, however, seems to have learned a more
subtle lesson, perhaps with left more satisfying results. And while I
don't think that is any serious fix, I also think that there might
well be a deterrence effect, to whatever extent that works - it might
not kill a system, but it can provide deterrence. Hell, I expect the
perpetrator for this attack to be on this list. So it becomes more
more step on the arms race.