Reply From: Lawrence Hughes <Lawrence.Hughes@mindspring.com>
Am I the only one that sees a serious flaw in this approach? With only
seven centers (no matter HOW beefy they are), how are they going to handle
the internet traffic of even a few really big customers, let alone enough
to sustain a real service offering? I can see the a new game emerging,
which is to guess exactly how minor an attack against a large number of
their clients can redirect their traffic to these centers and saturate
them... which results in either a denial of service or worse, a "failed
open" situation, with the poor client left totally unprotected, as Pilot
has told them they no longer need their firewall.....
>http://www4.zdnet.com/intweek/stories/news/0,4164,2200208,00.html
>Network Turned Firewall
>By Charles Babcock
>February 3, 1999 10:14 AM ET
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Received on Thu Mar 11 17:20:46 1999