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SubjectRe: tcp vulnerability? haven't seen anything on it here...
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Horst von Brand <vonbrand@inf.utfsm.cl> writes:

> If everybody (or at least the bigger knots) filters spoofed traffic,
> this ceases to be a problem. And that solves a shipload of other
> problems, so...

There isn't much incentive to deploy filters so that other people
don't suffer. So it takes a long time until it's almost universally
implemented. (We catch less backscatter from DDoS attacks than a few
years ago, so the situation may actually be improving.)

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