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2008-09-13 International-UN-NGOs

U.N. agency eyes curbs on Internet anonymity

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Posted by Anonymoose 2008-09-13 11:29|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top

#1 Ok, a known dictator and HR violator wants this. Does anyone ELSE think this is a good idea?

We have more than enough Big Brother already.

Posted by DLR 2008-09-13 15:58|| http://www.geocraft.com/WVFossils/ice_ages.html]">[http://www.geocraft.com/WVFossils/ice_ages.html] 2008-09-13 15:58|| Front Page Top

#2 Nearly everyone agrees that there are, at least in some circumstances, legitimate security reasons to uncover the source of Internet communications. The most common justification for tracebacks is to counter distributed denial of service, or DDoS, attacks.

S'plain to me please how knowing who the origin of a DDOS will stop the attack itself?

As it is now with the coming of gigabit interface DDOS may soon be thing of the past with a concomtant lack of need for any new routing or id protocols

Posted by badanov 2008-09-13 17:08|| http://www.freefirezone.org]">[http://www.freefirezone.org] 2008-09-13 17:08|| Front Page Top

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