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If the transaction cost can become insignificantly low, then money could flow in the direction of the victim. Each attack source could end up making a small con
by rlpb 10y ago
If the transaction cost can become insignificantly low, then money could flow in the direction of the victim. Each attack source could end up making a small contribution to the victim's bandwidth bill.
I'm not sure economic incentives will lead to this happening. There's also the difficulty in attributing traffic to the person who requested it ("is this a request, so we should bill the packet source, or is this a reply, so we should bill the packet destination?").
But in theory, I don't see the DDoS pattern (a high number of attack sources) making any difference to this proposal.
- aexaey 10y agoAre you suggesting that people should get paid for receiving traffic?
- rlpb 10y agoI believe this is what TekMol suggested when he said that the "individual players will make it costly for the other players to send problems their way".
- zer0gravity 10y agoBut wouldn't this make the matter worse ? Besides all the complications associating with billing, wouldn't this create more incentives for those controlling the botnets to use them in a creative way to actually make money from traffic ?