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Re: SMS DoS paper.


From: Dan Kaminsky <dan () doxpara com>
Date: Wed, 05 Oct 2005 08:00:09 -0700


By pushing 165 messages a second into the network, said Patrick D. McDaniel, a professor of computer science and engineering at 
Pennsylvania State University and the lead researcher on the paper, "you can congest all of Manhattan."
Insert horrible images of -- "Wow, SMS takes 1% of bandwidth....if we send 100x the SMS traffic, we'll take 100% of bandwidth!!!! What's rate limiting on non-latency-sensitive services, by the way?"
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