A completely distributed web host, hosted on people's machines. A lot more difficult to shut down (although, I guess if enough government pressure was put on some local chokepoint, it could be a problem). But if it was designed in such a way, as to mitigate these issues - it could be very powerful....imho that is :)
That's very interesting. Thanks for that link. Will look into it.
I was more thinking of a commercial product/platform that could be used for a variety of reasons.
So what is the only anti-dote to a DDOS right now? A bigger pipe...no?
Well imagine having a service that you can 'spin up' any number of nodes/machines to intercept all those packets. I am not sure how the economics would work, but in order for it to be a good service with good support it would have to be commercial - not an open source project.
The only issue with that is that if there is one company, it makes it easier for major governments to try and get their hands on it. So for WikiLeaks case, it might not be completely helpful, but imagine the many other cases where popular/large sites are hit by constant DDOSs. I think there could be significant use there. Especially as high-speed & fibre connections become more prevalent and latency (around the world) comes down even further than it has over the years.
A completely distributed web host, hosted on people's machines. A lot more difficult to shut down (although, I guess if enough government pressure was put on some local chokepoint, it could be a problem). But if it was designed in such a way, as to mitigate these issues - it could be very powerful....imho that is :)