Re: note from the operational side of the house

[Randy Bush <randy at psg.com>]

> I wonder if the future's most effective denial-of-service attacks
> will simply trigger semiautomatic "your customer XYZ isn't doing
> enough to protect our intellectual property, so disconnect them,
> or we'll increase your legal bills alot" claims from publishing
> houses and the like.   This could be much harder to protect oneself
> against in the long term than even distributed flood attacks.
> 
> I also wonder if this sort of thing is already happening.

i think smb can give you a refernce to public reportage of this very
problem in an isp with which i am rather familiar.

randy