"It turns out it's possible for a receiver to cause any standards compliant TCP stack to send data arbitrarily fast. So, you, my little cable modem equipped friend, can suck down the latest IE in a fraction of the time you should be able to get it.
Sure, your neighbors might get no bandwidth in the meantime, but that's not your concern, is it?"
This turns out to be one of several new attacks made possible by by really knowing how to hack your TCP setup
I see alot of what happened as the collapse of a hype based economy. You could see it in all of the weird evaluations if the dotcoms. Of course, while it was going on, only the weirdos and specialists in FUD were saying that it couldn't last, that you couldn't walk on air. The rest of us knew we were in a "New Economy"(tm).
This has been an education for many of us in Bubble Economics.
That being said, there is the probability that we will get into another period that will complement the first, a period of an Anti-Bubble economy, the time of the Anti-Hype.
This becomes its' own self fulfilling prophecy of doom and gloom. In fact it is its' own kind of "bubble", a pessimism bubble.
It is difficult to maintain a detached perspective on this. After all, these are "only" our lives on the line. It is tempting to say "well , I know it can't last, but I'll see if I can cash in on this while the going is good" (when the times where good). And this is where many of us got caught.
Hindsight is not perfect, but for many of us, it is close to 20/20.
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This turns out to be one of several new attacks made possible by by really knowing how to hack your TCP setup
This would be a nice feature
hit the submit button instead of preview... but an impressive list anyhow
all we need at the tilt and motion sensors and make it a real 3D experience
This has been an education for many of us in Bubble Economics.
That being said, there is the probability that we will get into another period that will complement the first, a period of an Anti-Bubble economy, the time of the Anti-Hype.
This becomes its' own self fulfilling prophecy of doom and gloom. In fact it is its' own kind of "bubble", a pessimism bubble.
It is difficult to maintain a detached perspective on this. After all, these are "only" our lives on the line. It is tempting to say "well , I know it can't last, but I'll see if I can cash in on this while the going is good" (when the times where good). And this is where many of us got caught.
Hindsight is not perfect, but for many of us, it is close to 20/20.