Date: Sat, 12 Feb 2000 12:50:26 -0800 From: W Gerald Hicks <jhix@mindspring.com> To: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Protection against dDoS attacks? Message-ID: <38A5C792.86CDFF67@mindspring.com> References: <4.1.20000212173227.00bb7ad0@mail.rz.fh-wilhelmshaven.de>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
Olaf Hoyer wrote: > > Hi! > > at: > > http://news.excite.com/news/zd/000211/17/if-you-cant > > there are some news about some Solaris/Linux software that has been written > by US agency to protect ccomputers against the agents needes for dDoS attacks. > But Source will be closed. > > Alternatively, another guy offers some detection program... > > Any comments? > I'm suspicious of their long-term motives. I also believe that some in the FBI would like to make the use of such software mandatory. I'd almost be willing believe that someone in the government might have been behind the attacks in the first place. Cheers, Jerry Hicks jhix@mindspring.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?38A5C792.86CDFF67>