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To: Math Junkie who wrote (47944)	6/14/2001 5:16:17 PM
From: Katherine Derbyshire	Read Replies (1) of 70976

It may not be possible to prevent a thirteen year old from mounting a DDoS attack. It is possible to make your own system less vulnerable to one. My point is that anti-DDoS techniques are an active area of study for security experts all over the world. If the best brains in the computer security industry can't fend off a bored thirteen year old, then what good are they? I'm betting that experience and resources will beat ignorant vandalism. I received the same PMs, presumably from the same person. No, it isn't possible to keep everyone out. The whole point of security is to make yourself a hard target--not worth the risk and/or expense, and to protect yourself so that you can detect an intrusion before the Bad Guy gets away with all your proprietary data. As I said, it's an ongoing battle, and some individual skirmishes will probably be lost by the good guys. But even something as "big" as Microsoft or AOL being taken down for the day is hardly the End of The Internet. Again, my main concern is with the alarmist tone of the original post, and of the entire discussion. Katherine

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