-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Maybe I'm going all Chicken Little here, maybe not. But I think this development may be the closest thing to an Internet Armageddon we are likely to see in our lifetimes. http://arstechnica.com/security/2016/09/why-the-silencing-of-krebsonsecu rity-opens-a-troubling-chapter-for-the-net/ =or= https://tinyurl.com/znzno7q How does thee patch that which is Unpatchable? DDOS now includes the death of a million ankle biters: Not just unpatchable, but massively distributed, with a continuing profit motive and no liability for the manufacturers, paid for and plugged in by hundreds of millions of "regular folks" throughout the so-called Developed Nations. So far every mitigation strategy relevant to "normal" users and use cases that occurs to me would be worse than the original problem. :o/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.22 (GNU/Linux) iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJX53iPAAoJEECU6c5XzmuqvwsH/1DdHCMcYTGQu4zosEdCZ3uf m8KSgIWNlBRDjkNr6BjmZ2geMBq7T8eZiN0lBKPosC/K+gyiuVLDYRTA1hoczuCP pNt6+m23KDELMxOwWKlpFjE/EUPKWkPJmnGyVdcsSvUpCYEceM8IEbKONs/BeVKj MqzQE2d8VsS1k7QntiuwQKpzAorZucly66MyLabmjHX+v8KMrr1Y2mfrsLY//kl2 RaFyVblmIlkJCL8tLZbx4ziBTB7mJRXc+ZB1kpggnyqPwxBJRXBUWvsnlFwgDVC3 MY3hgqTomLBcG1C1UgRTPl1Arg9AMo0sw5w/cjbTgfuZKbGuU2y7PwFzL1lnAKM= =wmH5 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----