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So if I'm an attacker, I just forge lots of different requests from different source IP addresses (on a network I can still view). The server may "block" some, but that won't block ME.
Just forge the source addresses...
Posted Jan 18, 2008 16:58 UTC (Fri) by robbe (guest, #16131) [Link]
I guess shimmer requires a valid TCP handshake before blocking the other party. Anything else would be foolish, as you stated.
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