I know someone who can’t get here except at work, which is not behind the firewall. The individual is not Chinese and works for a Western company, so I have to assume I’m blocked, which is a waste of resources on the part of the Chinese, which is good – I’m costing them money.
There are solutions Steve, but they are a PITA in their own way, and not just the expense, they also waste resources – like IP addresses. There is a slow down in services that would affect a broadband operation.
]]>DOS attacks are a PITA, as you, Bryan, and I discovered a while back when someone attacked the host we share. But they may simply be part of the territory. I have no expertise on the matter, but I assume it’s very difficult to build a system that is intentionally wide-open from a use perspective that does not also suffer from a security perspective.
]]>As mental health professionals will tell you, you have to be careful when you challenge people’s core delusions.
]]>You can stop these attacks, but it cost time and money to alter the infra-structure, and it slows things down. In the ancient times there were guys who dealt with these problems as a game, but much of what they did is now illegal, so the aggravation isn’t worth it.
I’ve been blocked by the “Great Firewall of China” for a while, although I’m not sure why, because I rarely wrote about China until they started to poison us all. The paranoid old duffers in charge are dying out, and when they are gone, change will come. I doubt they’ll embrace democracy, but things will change because they have been exposed to outside influences. They will probably move to some type of oligarchy.
]]>There is a neat article in today’s “New York Times” in the Technology section called “Bit Wars: When Computers Attack.” I would have included the link, but it’s very lengthy.
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