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An Anti-DoS Tool That Returns Fire
An anonymous reader submits "Security company Symbiot is about to launch a product that can help companies fight back during a DDoS or hacker attack by launching their own counter offensive. A ZDNet UK story quotes security "experts" questioning the legality of such a product and asking how it will will avoid being fooled by hijacked PCs and spoofed IP addresses..."
Where is the tactical nuke for spam? I want a tool that goes on the offensive against spammers.
heh, don't link to the company's website, slashdot editors - the /. horde will make with the clicking and they might return fire to your readers. ;)
(oblig. - "Of course, that would require them to be reading the articles")
entering the word EXIT (followed by pressing the Enter key) is a surefire way to kill those ding-dang DOS session windows.
Don't forget to salute.
Slashdot has been knocked off the web for good, seemingly due to the fact that several of the daily stories it linked too were running the new "counter-attack" DoS protection.
Then of course there's version 2, which preemptively attacks any remote hosts that could conceivably pose a threat. Inspired by official US Foreign Policy. Ba-dum-ching. ;)
"Mind, as manifested by the capacity to make choices, is to some extent present in every electron." -Freeman Dyson
You may be taking out grandma's computer in Birmingham that has got a 100-year-old cookie recipe that has not been backed up.
Okay, now they're crossing the line. You mess with Granny's Lucious Cookies, and you're in for it. This means war!
Show me on the doll where his noodly appendage touched you.
It preemptively surrenders even before it's attacked.
So then you forged a message so that it looked like it came from a second victim - and when their mailbox filled up it would bounce them back to the first victim
A fun way to take down T-1 lines back in the day when that was considered more bandwidth than any large university could ever use... Not that I have ever done anything like this
I have mod points and I am not afraid to use them
Nah, it'll start making sense when your network starts deciding to pre-emptively destroy threats. "11.245.21.4 has weapons of mass DDoSing, observe these reports where he pinged us 3 times. Packet bomb him." In the aftermath your network will discover that the IP address actually had no DDoS zombies, but was simply a NAT, the nodes behind which needed to be "liberated" from the NATs tyranny.
Just write it off as regrettable "collateral damage" in the "war on cyberterrorism" and reload.
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You're fine until someone kills Archduke Ferdinand.
It shuts down the instant you bring it online. To conserve energy.
It just pretends it has the capability to counter-attack.
Ironically, the word ironically is often used incorrectly.
Which launches DDoS attacks against itself, but then runs out of money and breaks up into smaller, poorer versions of itself.
-- "Government is the great fiction through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else."
It used to be that you had to use email worms to conscript people's PCs into your private army of DDoS zombies. By packaging the trojan and calling it a security product you can avoid all that hassle.