On Thu, 7 Jun 2001 dgillett@deepforest.org wrote: > It's not obvious to me that defending against intrusions does > anything to protect me from DDoSes. (Okay, folks -- I'm setting > myself up to learn something here. Teach me the error of my ways.) Think of it like automobile inspections or traffic laws. Ensuring your car is in safe operating order and obeying safety related laws doesn't protect you against other unsafe or unsafely operated cars but the more people that participate, the safer the highways. In other words, we're part of the solution or we're part of the problem :) Whether individuals in a free society, transportation system, or network can be depended upon to undertake personal responsibility themselves or whether it requires outside control is another question entirely. The state of Usenet, IRC, traffic accidents, and newspaper headlines make me rather cynical. -- Gary Flynn Security Engineer - Technical Services James Madison University Please R.U.N.S.A.F.E. http://www.jmu.edu/computing/info-security/engineering/runsafe.shtml
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