[cap-talk] controversial article

[Bill Frantz]

erights at gmail.com (Mark Miller) on Saturday, July 4, 2009 wrote:

>I do think that DSR or other such agoric bandwidth allocation systems
>can provide good defenses against DDOS. In the absence of legacy
>compatibility constraints, I believe they are straightforwardly
>technically achievable. But I do not believe they are politically
>possible anytime in the foreseeable future.

I also question their practical strength against massive distributed denial
of service attacks from 0wned machines, using the 0wned machine's money.

Of course, the optimist thinks that using the 0wned machine's money changes
the ecology, and may produce enough incentive to have people protect their
machines.

Cheers - Bill

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