23rd April 2011, 3:41 PM
DOS attacks... how old school... Do we seriously not have a decent defense to this yet? One would think just reassigning the IP address quickly or setting up a backup network would do the trick. Seriously though, how can some small group's computers possibly overwhelm a massive network's system, even with a DOS attack? One would think no matter how much they try, the number of simultaneous connections they could muster would pale in comparison to what Sony's routers could handle and deny. I mean, how about something as simple as refusing to even open a connection with any IP address that makes a certain number of failed connection attempts in a specific amount of time?
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)