Time4aNAP
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Re: spyware...
said by bogey780  :Right now she's probably getting bombarded by brute force attacks and various other hackers hoping to use her speed for a malicious proxy. And you're not?  |
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bogey780
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Here | Yea, we all are. But if botnets ever get ahold of her IP that speed could be used for some amazing DDOS attacks. |
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Time4aNAP
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1 edit | said by bogey780 :Yea, we all are. But if botnets ever get ahold of her IP that speed could be used for some amazing DDOS attacks. Not really.
First of all, this ongoing assumption that a guy who made his fortune on the Internet and ran a dedicated 40 Gbps fiber connection to the Cisco router that he put in his mom's garage is going to suddenly turn stupid, and find some unprotected computer that's lousy with malware to put on the other side of that router, with a public IP address, seems highly unlikely. Second, the kind of home computers whose wetware allow them to become hosts for 'bot software couldn't even come close to saturating a 40 Gbps line under the best conditions. In their typical infected state, most are being thrashed badly by all kinds of malware, and aren't even capable of saturating the measly uplink portion of their asymmetric Internet connections. That's probably why botnets were created in the first place. Third, I have a hunch that anybody who spends a small fortune to build and maintain a custom 40 Gbps Internet connection might get more than a single IP address out of this. Not that it matters much. The point is that it takes a lot more than the mere knowledge of an IP address to exploit anything using that IP address.
You guys are looking at a Dusenberg through Model T goggles. |
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bogey780
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Here | Yea true. I let the speed concept combined with an old lady get the better of my imagination. |
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Time4aNAP
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| Don't feel bad, you're not alone in that respect. My mom is a lot older than Peter's mom, has been a political reactionary all of her life, and has other mental limitations. And although she might not know much about the engineering aspects of her computer, she does know enough to let a professional handle what she can't. A younger mom, in a far more progressive country, might not be as clueless as some assume. |
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