On Wed, Jun 30, 2004 at 01:56:18AM +0100, Roy Badami wrote:
|
| Spammers, hackers and organized crime gangs are very much working
| together. People running blacklists are getting targetted by large
| scale DDoS attacks in an attempt to get them to give up, and several
| prominent blacklists have shut down over the past year because they
| couldn't cope. All but the largest ISP's are now I suspect likely to
| be unwilling to host a customer that runs a high profile blacklist,
| because they know that they can't cope with the inevitable DDoS
| attacks.
|
It seems to me that all the bad guys, put together,
collectively control more CPU power and more bandwidth than
all the good guys put together.
We are besieged.
It is no wonder we are transitioning to "assumed guilty
unless proven innocent".
Other appropriate models include an immune system design, in
which complex organisms constantly fend off disease.
In that model, it is imperative that the complex organisms
keep adapting and differentiating. We, the good guys, need
faster and more diverse ways to respond to threats. The
commercial antispam and antivirus guys have got it right.
The open community do too, with frequent releases of
SpamAssassin. Our standards processes need to come up to
speed as well.