Re: Mutually Assured DDoS

["Larry Seltzer" <larry () larryseltzer com>]

> > To be clear, I don't hold the view that Clausewitz is right when
looking at the Internet...

I guess I'm with you on this. But no matter which side he took I don't
see why principles like that should be so universal that they should
apply to network attacks as well as conventional human warfare. My
impression from what I've seen of the private wars we've had on the
Internet so far is that defense is possible, but expensive and
disadvantaged. The battleground was designed (unintentionally) for
offense.

On the other hand, offense as a defensive counterpart, what Dempsey
would call a counterpunch, is not available to respectable actors, so
we've never really seen it tested in earnest.

Larry Seltzer
Contributing Editor, PC Magazine
larry_seltzer () ziffdavis com 
http://blogs.pcmag.com/securitywatch/


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