Reply From: Lawrence Hughes <Lawrence.Hughesat_private> 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 -o- Subscribe: mail majordomoat_private with "subscribe isn". Today's ISN Sponsor: Internet Security Institute [www.isi-sec.com]
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