Comment Re:Carriers (Score 4, Interesting) 312
Wrong answer. What can the carrier do to block the sending of DDoS, not keep up customers being DDoS'd? Customers participating in DDoS attacks should be disconnected. Anything else is negligence by the carriers. But ISPs make more money leaving them on and defending from attacks, rather than stopping the attacks. It's criminal, and should be treated as such.
If only it were as easy. DDoS attacks come from botnets. Botnets don't come from somewhere, they come from *everywhere*. If they played the "cut off the offenders" game they would need one hell of a huge IP-level blacklist, or they would cut off literally every link they had since compromised hosts are everywhere. If you are going to say "just force the end ISP to disconnect them" then again it's amazingly complicated since an ISP in Georgia (the country) isn't going to listen to some twat in the UK or US complain about a certain group of hosts that are participating in a DDoS, just like ISPs in those countries wouldn't listen to some ahole in Georgia complain about a DDoS host since he might just want to take it offline for political reasons and there isn't nearly enough international cooperation to keep up good relationships between all the concerned parties. Moving up a tier, there is too much good traffic coming from any given ISP to simply write it off as blocking the whole thing.