Distributed Denial of Service Attacks have recently emerged as one of the most newsworthy, if not the greatest, weaknesses of the Internet. This paper attempts to explain how they work, why they are hard to combat today, and what will need to happen if they are to be brought under control. Plain text format, PS and HTML available at the homepage, here.
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