Re:Internet Attack Spreads, Disrupting Major Websites
by netcommentator on Friday October 21, 2016 @09:02PM
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Given national security interests, we need new laws: 1. IOT devices should not ship with default passwords. 2. Internet infrastructure companies should not be allowed to get "too big to fail".
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Re:Internet Attack Spreads, Disrupting Major Websites
by cderwin on Friday October 21, 2016 @11:58PM
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As far as (2) goes, they actually need to be too big too fail. Otherwise, it's plainly impossible for internet infrastructure companies to be able to financially weather ddos attacks like this. These sorts of attacks are very expensive to mitigate, and part of the way we can do that is to centralize under services like AWS and collectively pay for ddos protection (short of the government doing so and separating our network from those of major malicious foreign actors').