On Wed, 18 Sep 1996 12:22:10 -0400, Perry E. Metzger wrote:

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Cheswick opines,"This is the first major attack of a kind that I believe to be the final Internet security problem." Harrumph. We should only BE so lucky.

I don't remember if Ches was quoted correctly, but its more or less true -- we know how to deal with most classes of major problems, but denial of service is still a major question mark. I suspect its the last big frontier.

Hopefully it will die out if things ever switch over to a digicash payment scheme. Then only the big guys would mess with it... # Chris Adams <adamsc@io-online.com> | http://www.io-online.com/adamsc/adamsc.htp # cadams@acucobol.com | V.M. (619)515-4894 "I have never been able to figure out why anyone would want to play games on a computer in any case when the whole system is a game. Word processing, spreadsheets, telecoms -- it's all a game. And they pay you to play it." -- Duncan Frissell