"People — especially lazy bureaucrat email job type people, who just want to be left alone to do nothing — hate being called on the phone." Wow, it's literally me.
By having a phone number or persistent physical location, these "bureaucrats" declare that they have something to deprive them of. You are free to call or visit at any random time, while they have to accomodate you or anyone else at all times. This resource assymetry underlies all DoS (Denial of Service) attacks, the best ones use amplification - where 1 byte of bandwidth used by attacker causes a response feedback loop, resulting in avalanche of Mega and Giga-bytes of bandwidth wasted.
Accumulation of anything valuable makes one a target for deprivation by others, requiring shifting attention to short-term defense focus to alert of an attack. Resource asymmetry makes defense against DoS tricky - either yield and overallocate, or objectify the attacker's small attack budget and try to deprive of it - either passively (honeypots) or actively (frowned upon by LE).
"People — especially lazy bureaucrat email job type people, who just want to be left alone to do nothing — hate being called on the phone." Wow, it's literally me.
"We are then mortal enemies. I propose a duel."
"I graciously accept."
By having a phone number or persistent physical location, these "bureaucrats" declare that they have something to deprive them of. You are free to call or visit at any random time, while they have to accomodate you or anyone else at all times. This resource assymetry underlies all DoS (Denial of Service) attacks, the best ones use amplification - where 1 byte of bandwidth used by attacker causes a response feedback loop, resulting in avalanche of Mega and Giga-bytes of bandwidth wasted.
Accumulation of anything valuable makes one a target for deprivation by others, requiring shifting attention to short-term defense focus to alert of an attack. Resource asymmetry makes defense against DoS tricky - either yield and overallocate, or objectify the attacker's small attack budget and try to deprive of it - either passively (honeypots) or actively (frowned upon by LE).
"Somewhere was living, breathing life, pounding through the forest on light feet, and once he had seen it himself – where had that fox gone now?"