On Mon, 21 Feb 100, Darren Reed wrote: > If you had money to burn, how many el-cheapo pc's would you need to install > at POP's around the world such that you had a virtual army out there that > was yours and from which you could send forged packets whenever you like? > (just how many ISPs are going to bother checking, eh?) All you have to do > is muddy the path of who the ISP thinks owns those boxes and yourself in the > event that someone works out which boxes the packets are actually coming > from...would 1000 be enough ? (Are there even that many POPs ? :) Maybe > too expensive for a teenage hacker, but not the mafia, CIA, etc. By POPs, I assume you mean more than dial-up. Under optimal conditions, 1000 PCs at (at most) 40k upstream can do 40Mb of damage. Not really enough to match what we saw recently. If they're all behind cable/DSL, that would do it. I don't think that scneraio is particularly interesting for a number of reasons: It's too time consuming to set up that many connections, purchase PCs, etc.. It's too expensive, as opposed to stealing from other people's resources, and it's a whole lot less anonymous. I'd be better off buying a few giant machines, and an OC-12, etc.. under a false name, and abandoning the NOC. Much cheaper and quicker to set up, but it would get shut down faster, so it would depend on the duration of attack I needed. Ryan
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