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A curious proof-of-work project built on cryptocurrency has emerged that offers a means to prove participation in distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks. University of Colorado assistant professor Eric Wustrow and University of Michigan phD student Benjamin VanderSloot create the platform that allows TLS web servers to …

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  1. Anonymous Coward
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    Just explain to me ..

    .. why they feel they have to help the criminal fraternity with new ideas?

    Just curious.

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  2. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    Seems trivial to block, as the IP address can be banned during the TCP handshake, after a small threshold of failed TLS connections.

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  3. Adam 1

    Leaving aside the more, er, questionable elements of this proposal, wouldn't the effort to validate that block chain exceed the ddos itself?

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  4. Anonymous Coward
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    RE: Easy breesy

    Jail sentences can be handed out based on how many MoronCoins were paid out to the attacker. This is one of the dumbest things I have ever heard of - these dudes better stay in academia .. the real world is going to be far less forgiving.

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