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Hier staat een uitgebreide analyse over het gevaar wanneer breedband gebruikers‚ met minder veilige operating systemen‚ grootschaling besmet worden met worms en trojan horses.
[quote]If you can control a million hosts on the Internet‚ you can do enormous damage. First‚ you can launch distributed denial of service (DDOS) attacks so immensely diffuse that mitigating them is well beyond the state-of-the-art for DDOS traceback and protection technologies. Such attacks could readily bring down e-commerce sites‚ news outlets‚ command and coordination infrastructure‚ specific routers‚ or the root name servers.
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