Comments on: Antiantisocial Networks http://nerdlife.net/antiantisocial-networks/ *Insert Witty Subtitle Here* Sat, 14 Jan 2012 16:38:53 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Ben Maurer http://nerdlife.net/antiantisocial-networks/comment-page-1/#comment-873 Ben Maurer Sat, 06 Sep 2008 04:37:16 +0000 http://nerdlife.net/?p=133#comment-873 This paper shows how low the bar is for "research" and Slashdot these days. What the authors don't mention is that the website can easily use referrer blocking to prevent themselves from wasting outbound bandwidth. This method can't generate that many requests per second -- 10k/sec at the highest. A single web server can parse requests & filter on referrer at that rate. The real irony is, the authors have found a better method of DoS than the one listed in their paper. Write a crappy yet sensational paper and try to generate press. Then place a malicious iframe on that site. This paper shows how low the bar is for “research” and Slashdot these days. What the authors don’t mention is that the website can easily use referrer blocking to prevent themselves from wasting outbound bandwidth. This method can’t generate that many requests per second — 10k/sec at the highest. A single web server can parse requests & filter on referrer at that rate.

The real irony is, the authors have found a better method of DoS than the one listed in their paper. Write a crappy yet sensational paper and try to generate press. Then place a malicious iframe on that site.

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