Distributed Denial of Service: Law, Technology & Policy

From: Law Technology | Date: July 1, 2006| Author: de Villiers, Meiring | Copyright information

ABSTRACT

A Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack aims to deprive legitimate users of a resource or service provided by a system, by overloading the system with a flood of data packets, thus preventing it from processing legitimate requests. This article analyzes the doctrines governing the allocation of liability among key players in a DDoS attack. The doctrines are well established and based on common law tort principles and policy considerations. The main contribution of the ar...

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