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Re: Over a decade of DDOS--any progress yet?
- From: Dobbins, Roland
- Date: Wed Dec 08 06:14:30 2010
On Dec 8, 2010, at 5:58 PM, <bmanning@vacation.karoshi.com> wrote:
> actually, botnets are an artifact. claiming that the tool is the problem might be a bit short sighted. with the evolution of Internet technologies
> (IoT) i suspect botnet-like structures to become much more prevelent and useful for things other than coordinated attacks.
I'm a big advocate of distributed/agile computing models with swarming/flocking behaviors - see slide 32 of this preso for an example:
<https://files.me.com/roland.dobbins/c07vk1>
When these things are harnessed together in order to launch DDoS attacks and steal financial information and intellectual property and so forth, we call them 'botnets'. They're a force-multiplier which allow the attacker to avoid the von Clausewitzian friction of conflict, and which give him a comfortable degree of anonymity, not to mention highly asymmetrical force projection capabilities and global presence.
'Botnet-like structures' = botnets, for purposes of this discussion. Semantic hair-splitting.
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