RE: Is there a line of defense against Distributed Reflective attacks?

["Deepak Jain" <deepak () ai net>]

> > As long as the car _moves_ under its own power across the highway, its
> > essentially not the car manufacturers' (or the consumers') immediate
> > concern.
>
>   That's really not true.  Before car companies sell cars, they
> pass (lots of) safety certification tests.  Before owners drive
> cars legally, they pass a safety and emissions test.  Sure, the
> highway folks clean up after the occasional tire blowout, but
> there's been a lot of work put in to make sure that the engines
> aren't going to drop out on a regular basis.
>
>   If the Internet was a highway, it would be covered in
> burned-out engines.

True, in the literal sense. 1) Software companies and hardware manufacturers
have their own QA, focus groups and eval processes. Since very few people
will die in the event
of a burned-out engine on the Internet. Determiniation of the value of these
things is up to the reader.

An internal combustion engine is a much older, more widely tested thing than
the "cars" we drive on
the Internet and it figures that in reliability/safety numbers they win.

The motherboards don't blow out, and the asphalt that makes the Internet
highway works too (generally).

DJ