-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Nov 5, 2009 at 4:46 PM, Stefan Fouant <sfou...@shortestpathfirst.com> wrote:
>> >> Actually, no - the miscreants are always going to have more bandwidth >> at their disposal, plus they utilize attack vectors which provide a >> great deal of amplification (including at layer-7) which make >> bandwidth largely irrelevant. > > So if I'm hearing you correctly, you're saying that no matter how much > infrastructure you have to potentially absorb the problem, there is > nothing you can do because the bad guys are always going to have more > bandwidth at their disposal. Man, that's a pretty bad position to be in > for a vendor who's fundamental premise is to sell boxes to deal with > these sorts of > problems. ;) Well, the fact of the matter is that you can't put 10 lb. of [expletive] in a 5 lb. bag, so to speak. :-) - - ferg -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP Desktop 9.5.3 (Build 5003) wj8DBQFK83sEq1pz9mNUZTMRAnvkAJ9XcDIi7XTE32nMtwJfwCflq6hcdgCfXmPT OkqNIuL8OH+BN6S4UxlfdSc= =kqaC -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- "Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson Engineering Architecture for the Internet fergdawgster(at)gmail.com ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/
