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> Well, along these lines WordPress, the blog software that I use,
> prevents comment spam by making sure that users with the same IP can't
> post more often than every 30 seconds. This makes spambots useless and
> expensive to run.
>
> Same can be applied to web application protection, i.e. a single IP
> cannot make more than N hits/second or something of that sort.
Nope, proxies are readily available. Interestingly the world of blogging
recently received a nice new threat, crapflooding through trackback. Shelley
has the explanation and relevant links at [1].
Jacques Distler offered a simple explanation for the phenomenon in general -
software monoculture. In the case of most virus problems, the monoculture is
essentially that of Microsoft. But the web itself is built on the
monoculture of TCP/IP, so the problem runs deeper, so even without the Borg
we'd still have to cross this bridge sooner or later. Or rather stop
unwanted packets crossing it.
Cheers,
Danny.
[1]
http://weblog.burningbird.net/fires/technology/stepping_stones_to_a_safer_bl
og.htm
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