February 2000 brought DoS attacks against several e-commerce sites, and DDoS to the attention of the general public.
Most current proposals deal only with a small part of the issue.
We will look at the larger picture of response to DDoS attacks. At the height of the Cold War, immense resources were devoted by Western signals intelligence agencies to collecting civilian communications of their own and other Western nations. This talk reviews the development, scale, significance, and technical functions of the Comint network run jointly by the English-speaking nations. The increasing impact of cryptography and other security measures suggests that Comint resources are likely to shift to network and terminal attacks. The implications of these moves will be discussed.