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I still maintain that since we already have this system (it's called "looking up your ISP and emailing them") where if you send spam emails, we contact your ISP
by immibis 2y ago
I still maintain that since we already have this system (it's called "looking up your ISP and emailing them") where if you send spam emails, we contact your ISP, and you get kicked off the internet...
And the same system will also you get banned from your ISP if you port scan the Department of Defense...
why are we not doing the same thing against DoS attackers? Why are ISPs not hesitant to cut people off based on spam mail, but they won't do it based on DoS?
- thunderfork 2y agoAll you need to evade ISP complaints is (e.g.) a botnet of residential IPs making a few requests each, instead of one IP making a ton.
- diggan 2y ago> why are we not doing the same thing against DoS attackers? The first D in DDoS stands for "distributed", meaning it comes from multiple different origins, usually hacked devices. If we start throwing off every compromised network, we'd only have a few (secure) networks left. Probably network equipment vendors would quickly have to redo their security so it actually protects people. So yeah, good question.
- immibis 2y agoAI scrapers don't exclusively use botnets. If they had to exclusively use botnets, at least they'd have to pay $1-$20 per gigabyte downloaded...