After reading many of the comments here it would seem that the "highly intelligent" community here at/. is somewhat loosing sight of the issue. 1. Security...Ok, DoS is bad. The question is not so much how do we get people to stop letting users spoof IPs and so on...but more how do we who run systems out there stop the attack. By asking every entity with an Internet presence to implement anything you're getting into areas called REGULATION which we all know is something no one really wants.
2. This attack took out the worlds highest traffic Internet site. Not just one server, but the entire network. A network which, I'm sure, includes co-location and nearly every high availability mechanism known to geeks. This was not some script kiddie fooling around. This had to have been a concentrated, organized effort by a group of people.
The bottom line is to answer the question, How do I protect myself?
It is theoretically possible to create a black hole in one's own basement/backyard. Many of you may be familiar with digital sampling. One of the main priciples behind digital sampling is that in order to get a decent digital copy of an analog sound is to ensure that your sampling frequency is at least twice your highest analog signal frequency. To ensure with out a doubt that you have a quality digital sample we simply need to drive the sampling frequency toward infinity. The amount of energy required to make an infinitely small time slice will theoretically create a small black hole. Of course, as it sucks things in, it will grow in size.
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After reading many of the comments here it would seem that the "highly intelligent" community here at /. is somewhat loosing sight of the issue.
1. Security...Ok, DoS is bad. The question is not so much how do we get people to stop letting users spoof IPs and so on...but more how do we who run systems out there stop the attack. By asking every entity with an Internet presence to implement anything you're getting into areas called REGULATION which we all know is something no one really wants.
2. This attack took out the worlds highest traffic Internet site. Not just one server, but the entire network. A network which, I'm sure, includes co-location and nearly every high availability mechanism known to geeks. This was not some script kiddie fooling around. This had to have been a concentrated, organized effort by a group of people.
The bottom line is to answer the question, How do I protect myself?
It is theoretically possible to create a black hole in one's own basement/backyard. Many of you may be familiar with digital sampling. One of the main priciples behind digital sampling is that in order to get a decent digital copy of an analog sound is to ensure that your sampling frequency is at least twice your highest analog signal frequency. To ensure with out a doubt that you have a quality digital sample we simply need to drive the sampling frequency toward infinity. The amount of energy required to make an infinitely small time slice will theoretically create a small black hole. Of course, as it sucks things in, it will grow in size.